childhood

Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

Jaha Nailah Avery on the Significance of Addy Walker

 
By Jaha Nailah Avery  June 9, 2025
Childhood

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

By Peter Conrad  May 5, 2025
Coming of Age

“Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime

By Kyle Edwards  April 21, 2025
Film Criticism

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

By Henry Lien  March 10, 2025
The Writing Life

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 5, 2025
Psychology

How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

By Sarah Perry  February 4, 2025
Literary Icons

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

By Constance Roisin  January 24, 2025
Girlhood

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
Mothers and Sons

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

By Andy Corren  January 16, 2025
Boyhood

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

By Lee Hawkins  January 16, 2025
Neuroscience

An Emotional Time Machine: How Our Sense of Smell Can Unlock Childhood Memories

By Jonas Olofsson  January 13, 2025
On Reading

From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

By Gloria L. Huang  January 8, 2025
Children's Literature

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

By Sara B. Franklin  December 11, 2024
Diaries

How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

By Carl Rollyson  November 19, 2024
Ghosts!

Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers:
The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident

By Helen Vogelsong-Donahue  October 31, 2024
Girlhood

The Right Kind of Doll: Sarah Moss on the Prides and Pressures of Girlhood

By Sarah Moss  October 24, 2024
Girlhood

Portal to a Forgotten Land: Finding Your Character’s Voice In Old Diaries

By Tyler Wetherall  October 23, 2024
Coming of Age

James Ivory Tells His 1940s Queer Coming-of-Age Story

By James Ivory  October 21, 2024
On The Self

A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

By Dionne Brand  October 1, 2024
Immigrant Stories

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

By Daisy Hernández  September 13, 2024
On Poetry

Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

By Peter Mishler  September 11, 2024
Creation Myths

Shalom Auslander on the First Story He Was Ever Told

By Shalom Auslander  July 23, 2024
Sectarianism

From Dream to Nightmare: On the Deadly Manifestations of Religious Hatred in India

By Zara Chowdhary  July 22, 2024
Reckonings

Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

By Jonny Diamond  July 12, 2024
The West

Seeking a Gentler Mythology of the American West

By Joe Wilkins  July 3, 2024
Musicians

Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies

By Lauren Aliza Green  July 2, 2024
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