Ruth Davis Konigsberg
Articles by Ruth Davis Konigsberg
More About the Mommies! A Gentle Satire
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A domestic goddess in action.
THE TEN-YEAR NAP
By Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead, 351 pages, $24.95
I loved Meg Wolitzer’s previous novels The Wife (2003) and The Position (2005), but when I told a friend that her new book, The Ten-Year Nap, was about stay-at-home mothers who lamented their old selves, and my friend said, “Disenchanted mommies—it’s so cliché to be one now,” I knew she had a point. (She then added, “For the record, I was whining about motherhood before it was cool.”) read more »
A Pair of True Believers, Each With Her Own Aesthetic
C. Yoshiko Han
Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, co-founders of The Believer.
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida. Ecco, 226 pages, $23.95.
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Sibling-Friction Fiction: A Case for Large Families
Joyce Ravid
Eliza Minot, last of a large brood.
As Newsweek recently reminded us, sibling dynamics are as important (psychologically, developmentall read more »
Sibling-Friction Fiction: A Case for Large Families
As Newsweek recently reminded us, sibling dynamics are as important (psychologically, developmentall read more »
Long Live Precocious Narrators! But Let's Hope They Grow Up
The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank. Viking, 324 pages, $24.95.
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What Makes Mommy Run? An Anatomy of the Über-Mutter
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, by Judith Warner. read more »
The Nanny Authors' Second Act: Bad Bosses and Icky Romance
Citizen Girl, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Atria, 306 pages, $24.95.
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