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  • Anger management

    Growing up, I was terrified of my father's hair-trigger temper. So it was with surprise, and shame, that I found myself exploding at my teenage son.
    By Kurt Chandler June 18, 2005

  • The Mafia and the disappearing father

    From Michael Corleone to Tony Soprano, mob dads have been increasingly embattled -- and our national obsession with their fall reflects our culture's crisis of fatherhood.
    By Alessandro Camon March 8, 2005

  • Allergies can be deadly

    My husband keeps poisoning our son ... and then he says, Whoops, I forgot!
    By Cary Tennis August 24, 2004

  • A brief history of the (over)involved father

    Do you have to go to every Little League game to be a good dad? An excerpt from "The Bastard on the Couch."
    By Anthony Giardina April 29, 2004

  • What was he thinking?

    "The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom" tries to answer the eternal question. A conversation with the collection's editor, Daniel Jones.
    By Larry Smith April 29, 2004

  • When a man loves a daughter

    She lives in a teeny apartment in a scary part of town. What's a dad to do?
    By Stephen J. Lyons February 7, 2003

  • The Bucs, baby

    Of fathers and sons, Gruden and Callahan, and why the key to the Super Bowl may be what happens when the NFL's best offense and defense are both on the sidelines.
    By King Kaufman January 25, 2003

  • Daddy's home

    Sharing the dugout and lots of affection with their sons, the Giants telegraphed good news about fatherhood -- and manhood -- in 2002.
    By Joan Walsh October 29, 2002

  • Rotten kid

    Why do the John Ashcrofts burn with hatred for John Walker Lindh? He's their renegade son whose every thought and action stands as an unforgivable personal rebuke.
    By Eric Weinberger July 17, 2002

  • The Madman and me

    Ozzy and I crossed paths on the worst day of my life. Boy, am I grateful.
    By Erich Pfeifer July 16, 2002

  • Fear and fatherhood

    My son is sometimes afraid of me; I am more afraid of him. We both wrestle demons -- monsters for him, parental anxieties for me -- that cannot be vanquished.
    By Justin Davidson July 8, 2002

  • Her father's keeper

    Laura Blumenfeld, author of "Revenge: A Story of Hope," talks about tracking down the Palestinian who shot her father.
    By Suzy Hansen April 5, 2002

  • Everything falls

    My father is a burning martyr scratching his balls as I condemn him for his sin.
    By Jill Ketterer December 4, 2001

  • Lynda Barry

    The subject of Dad
    November 21, 2001

  • My so-called wedding

    In the second row, my father averts his eyes, afraid he will not feel pride, but desire.
    By Rebecca Taylor November 7, 2001

  • The myth of the deadbeat dad

    A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting.
    By Suzy Hansen August 9, 2001

  • The plastered paterfamilias

    My father was a drunk -- but he was a great dad anyway. If I'm in denial, I plan to stay there.
    By Paul J. Williams June 15, 2001

  • My dad, Vegas, acid and enlightenment

    Al looks for nirvana and I go along for the ride.
    By Joel Blum March 8, 2001

  • All about my father

    Underwear should always be American.
    By Carina Chocano February 5, 2001

  • Shooting dad

    Childhood gunplay left me unarmed and dangerous.
    By Jeff Taylor December 22, 2000

  • Dad liked vodka best

    So I stole his baseball glove that had supernatural powers.
    By Lynda Barry June 16, 2000

  • A wiggy shrink in yellow bell-bottoms

    Once I stopped expecting my father to be ordinary it got easier to accept his polymorphously perverse personality.
    By Annie Auguste June 15, 2000

  • My father's legacy

    He left me a reading list and a chaste warning about self-abuse. I devoured one, ignored the other and, eventually, became acquainted with the total literary experience.
    By George Packer June 15, 2000

  • "A policeman had to pry me away from him"

    As far as the law is concerned, once your dad is in prison, he's not your dad anymore.
    By Nell Bernstein June 14, 2000

  • My father loved me as a child

    But when I became an adult, he decided that he never wanted to see me again. And he didn't.
    By Yona Zeldis McDonough June 14, 2000
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