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Beth Behrendt on How to Co-Parent in the Family Home After the Marriage Ends
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right...
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Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started...
Growing up in India in the late 1980s and 1990s, feminism took my friends and me firmly out of the kitchen. The tubelit kitchen was where our grandmothers belonged, with their pallus tucked in to their...
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My Mother Was Also a First Mermaid of Color
There can be a whiplash to being a Disney fan. I came of age during the Disney Renaissance—when they once again began producing commercially successful animated films—kicked off by The Little Mermaid...
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We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody
Sometimes I fantasize about being divorced. I don’t want the heartbreak or the meanness, the money fights or the bitterness. Even “amicable” divorces seem painful. Honestly, I don’t even want to be...
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Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing
I write this the way I write everything: on prepaid time. For the next two hours, I’m sitting at a picnic table a few miles from home, where my three small kids are napping or playing under my...
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Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of...
As the kind of girl who grew up more firmly rooted in the worlds of books than the world around me, I’m not sure how it is that I hadn’t read Anne of Green Gables before age 40. From my fellow...
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WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles
The Journey That Matters is a series of six short videos from Arwen Curry, the director and producer of Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, a Hugo Award-nominated 2018 feature documentary about the iconic...
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Making Sense of Santa, as a Science Reporter and a Parent
When my son was almost two years old, we went to the office holiday party at NPR, where I work. He was happily eating cookies in a cafeteria crowded with revelers when Santa Claus burst into the room...
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How We Spend Our Days: On Wintering and the Value of Giving and Taking Care
Though she wrote it before the pandemic, Katherine May’s Wintering is very much about the way that a season—a literal or figurative winter—often requires from us a kind of intensified awareness of our...
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The toddler book tolerability index.
There are hundreds of thousands of kids’ books out there. Some are classics that wind up in everyone’s homes, no matter what. Others are random—given as gifts, found on the playground, purchased in...
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A Subterranean Kinship: Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison on Writing Separate...
As soon as I read Rachel Lyon’s riveting and lush new novel Fruit of the Dead—propulsive in my hands and heart, an intricate jigsaw of feeling—I had the unnerving sense of subterranean kinship between...
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Three Questions You Need to Answer as a Children’s Book Writer
One of my duties every single day as an author, journalist, and constituent, is to read. I study the written word the way a football coach studies football games. I don’t read for pleasure just like a...
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