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Chloe Shaw

Chloe Shaw lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, two cats, and two dogs. She writes fiction and nonfiction.

What Is a Dog?

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

by Chloe Shaw | Monday, March 05, 2018
Spring, 1988

Spring, 1988

Time does nothing to lessen the pain of sexual assault

by Chloe Shaw | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Pictures

Pictures

Reflecting on gun violence from the Happiest Place on Earth

by Chloe Shaw | Tuesday, April 03, 2018
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.