Your child's tastes--for a particular brand of peanut butter, or milk, or religion--are up for grabs once she's out of the womb. But what happens if she turns into a Knicks freak, Mr. No-Sports-Knowledge-Whatsoever? More notes on our writer's long nine months.
Our children are unique composites of our genes and our mate’s—noses, hairlines, and tennis serves. Unfortunately, the kid can also get saddled with Uncle Tom’s halitosis. Another installation in our writer's saga of birth.
Part of becoming a father is accepting responsibility for how another person turns out. But can you hold your own family responsible too? And is it smart to gather them all on a cruise to find out? Our writer continues his illustrated saga.
Leaving New York for Ohio, even for a short time, is an exercise in real-estate envy and relaxation, except for all those drunk cowboys. Our writer continues his tale of pregnancy with a new episode about patience and gunfire.
You can have a successful career in your thirties and still pretend you’re 18, carousing at clubs and sleeping on a futon. But to have a baby at the same time? Our writer continues the Peanut with a new installment on adulthood.
Attention men: Want to have a child? Then you better come up with a plan for making sure you accomplish the vital first steps. Our chronicler of technical wherewithal brings us a new episode of the Peanut.
There are hundreds of wonderful books on motherhood for women; there are zero decent books on fatherhood for men. Our contributing illlustrator starts a new series, to continue here every other week, about fatherhood. Welcome to the Peanut.
Can watercolors change how you perceive a killer? Do murderers have a harder time sitting for portraits?
How much can you tell about a person from their yearbook photo, particularly when the yearbook is stocked with killers?
There's no easy way to tour Israel on foot, especially when people are trying to steal your art supplies. Our staff illustrator returns to the land where his family's been for more than 70 years.
