Obrecht, Téa, “The Tiger’s Wife” (Random House 2011)

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they’re gone, we’re left with the concept, …

Galchen, Rivka “The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies” (New York Times, October 14, 2015)

Music and parenting share a substructure of repetition with variation: Somehow we are at once unconsciously trying to re-enact our …