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Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?
Rumaan Alam
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The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.
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I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.
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To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.
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By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.
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It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.
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My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.
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Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation to their children. You might marry someone who is already a parent. Or you might, as in my case, yearn to create a family and decide to adopt.
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Form ossifies into genre through repetition.
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A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.
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Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.
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Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
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