Nik Korpon reviews You Can Make Him Like You, by Ben Tanzer.

His wife’s pregnancy potentially looming, Seth Pollins frets about the time he spends writing, and whether he’ll have to give it up.

Jim Simpson talks with Hoboken, NJ, songwriter Kate Jacobs about the craft of songwriting, the Mets, Chekhov, parenthood, and her new album, Home Game.

Richard Cox travels long distances and wages war during the winter break.

Amy Shearn discovers that toddlers are basically teenagers. In diapers.

Andrew Nonadetti remembers the day he coined the phrase “Post-Traumatic Wanking Disorder”.

The French word for late is retard and the word for wide is large, but Nathaniel Missildine discovers that the word for family gets garbled no matter the language is used to describe it.

Greg Olear can satisfy Angelina Jolie in ways Brad Pitt can only dream of.

Or, rather, his wife can.

Read all about it in this open letter to the Academy-Award-winning actress and humanitarian about town.

When is a school bus not just a school bus? Alison Aucoin takes a journey that involves her parents’ divorce, an emotionally disturbed nun, school bus phobia, and the alphabetizing of spices. Finally, she realizes that parenthood is forcing her to face every bit of trauma from her childhood, no matter how odd, in order to be the parent her daughter deserves.