Children Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/children/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Children Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/children/ 32 32 Passion. Mess. Genius. Mother. https://www.publicbooks.org/passion-mess-genius-mother-pamela-adlon-better-things/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:00:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49667 Pamela Adlon reveals the mundane project of motherhood to be vast, fluid, and fascinating in its own right.

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]]> Brilliant Together: On Feminist Memoirs https://www.publicbooks.org/brilliant-together-on-feminist-memoirs/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:00:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46427 Collective feminist narratives can acknowledge, to differing degrees, the stories that are missing from them.

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]]> Don’t Listen to Morals, Listen to Vegetables https://www.publicbooks.org/dont-listen-to-morals-listen-to-vegetables/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45592 Making food joyful—even while educating on food insecurity—is a tall order for a children’s show. But Waffles + Mochi is a show like no other.

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]]> As American as Child Separation https://www.publicbooks.org/as-american-as-child-separation/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41225 The United States tears families apart—during slavery, in the wars against indigenous people and the war on drugs, and, today, at the border.

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]]> B-Sides: Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-daisy-ashfords-the-young-visiters/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38291 A child’s novel can be funny by revealing how much a child does know, after all.

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]]> Translation and Other Children: Liberaki’s “Three Summers” https://www.publicbooks.org/translation-and-other-children-liberakis-three-summers/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31096 While metaphors linking translation to human reproduction abound, Karen ...

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]]> Surrogacy Stories https://www.publicbooks.org/surrogacy-stories/ Tue, 07 May 2019 16:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28106 Midway through Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show, The New One, the ceiling above the stage opens and various baby paraphernalia cascade onto the stage floor. An oversized stuffed bear, a breast ...

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]]> Adoption and the Abundance of Narrative https://www.publicbooks.org/adoption-and-the-abundance-of-narrative/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27726 Adoption narratives are hard to tell. This is ironic given that adoptions are fueled by stories. Birth parents tell themselves that giving up their child is for the best and ...

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]]> Dancing Queer Children https://www.publicbooks.org/dancing-queer-children/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26560 Fans of Dance Moms and of RuPaul’s Drag Race alike rejoiced when Netflix debuted Dancing Queen this past fall. As Abby Lee Miller—the Dance Moms teacher and queen of my heart—frequently and ...

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]]> Birth of a Queer Parent https://www.publicbooks.org/birth-of-a-queer-parent/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26221 By virtue of their youth, trans and queer kids offer something new. Coming out today is less exclusively a narrative of young adulthood or middle age, and increasingly an experience of childhood or early adolescence. When kids embrace models of social identity newly available to their generation, the parents who love and care for them […]

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