Table Manners
André Alexis, whose novels include “Fifteen Dogs,” remembers mealtimes with his parents after moving from Trinidad to Canada.
Family Values
admin Love Omen
Miriam Toews, the author of “Women Talking,” remembers a year in her twenties when, broke, with two young children and…
The Antagonist
Han Ong, the author of the novel “Fixer Chao,” cut ties with his family when he was twenty. Almost thirty…
Forward Into Foreignness
That’s how we did things in my family—tabbouleh, hurling, helva, “Inshallah,” “godverdomme”—all of it was our culture, Joseph O’Neill writes.
The Tally
Anne Enright, the author of “The Wren, the Wren” and “The Gathering,” writes about her mother’s radical honesty.