The Lost Daughter is not only a story about a mother who leaves her children; it’s a story about a mother who leaves her children and returns.
Read MoreIt’s reasonable to wonder whether it’s fair to bring children into a deteriorating world, and yet it’s nevertheless hard to shake the suspicion that, for many of the people inveighing against the morality of child-rearing, the prospect of a life without children appears to be less a sacrifice than a relief.
Read MoreIn 1964, when Joseph Brodsky was 24, he was brought to trial for “social parasitism.”
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