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Edward Hower

Edward Hower  has published eight novels. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Southern Review, Epoch, and elsewhere.

Voyages

Voyages 

by Edward Hower | Monday, December 03, 2018
The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them

by Edward Hower | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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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.