Fathers and Sons

Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own

 
By Douglas Field  February 27, 2024
Fathers and Sons

How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

By Daniel Mendelsohn  September 1, 2023
Fathers and Sons

David Shih on Missing His Father’s Death

By David Shih  August 21, 2023
Fathers and Sons

A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

By Daniel Wallace  May 26, 2023
Fathers and Sons

Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell The Story of His Biological Father

By Manuel Muñoz  November 1, 2022
Fathers and Sons

“It felt like our last chance to understand him.” Tad Friend Talks to His Father About the Life He Lived

By Tad Friend  May 11, 2022
Fathers and Sons

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
Fathers and Sons

Gabriel Byrne on Struggling With Authenticity in the Wake of Fatherly Expectation

By Gabriel Byrne  February 10, 2021
Fathers and Sons

What Fathers Leave Behind—Or Don’t

By P. Carl  February 12, 2020
Fathers and Sons

When Stephen King is Your Father, the World is Full of Monsters

By Joe Hill  October 10, 2019
Fathers and Sons

Existential Dread and the Art
of Boat-Building

By Jonathan Gornall  May 8, 2019
Fathers and Sons

Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

By John Connell  May 7, 2019
Fathers and Sons

Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
Father Never Really Had

By Edouard Louis  April 2, 2019

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