‘Oh wow, this is gonna be good’ — How it feels to watch yourself grow up in 29 minutes flat
Ella Rosenblatt is the star of 'How Do You Measure a Year,' directed by her Oscar-nominated filmmaker dad
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Culture Why the ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ movie is for grown-ups more than girls
The new adaptation of Judy Blume's 1970 classic might really be about Margaret's mother
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Culture Are you there, Judy Blume? It’s me, Molly.
I spent my childhood summers in a small beach town near Mystic, Conn., swimming in the frigid Fishers Island Sound, catching crabs by affixing sliced hot dogs — or, in a pinch, mussels crushed beneath a paving stone — to thick white string and dangling the bait off the dock. I accompanied my older cousin…
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Life A Mother and Daughter, Raised Worlds Apart
Last Sunday, in a glittery princess frenzy, we ushered in my daughter’s seventh year. I love children’s birthday parties and all the fabulous will-certainly-break-tomorrow presents that abound. Yes, I shamelessly admit that I ogle the gifts, lick icing off the birthday cake and become a member of the children’s club, for two kids, twice a…
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Life Judy Blume’s ‘Tiger Eyes’ Comes to Big Screen
My favorite Young Adult novels when I was a young reader were the ones that I now think of as “my summer of death and kissing” novels. Sound morbid? It’s not, really. It’s about a certain kind of melancholy grandeur. The way I see it is: If art, like life, boils down to sex, death…
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The Schmooze To Vitebsk and Back Again
“Do the dead know that life still exists, somewhere?” the 17-year-old literature-loving, sex-obsessed Samuel Glass asks in “The Odyssey of Samuel Glass.” Since his adored father’s sudden death, he is desperate to leave the confines of his north London suburban home. His desire to “get away from the doom-laden cloud that pervaded the house” is…
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Life Grandmothers, You’re Scaring Me
Grandmothers and more experienced mothers: You’re starting to scare me. I appreciate the constant cooing over my little girl, I do. But the nostalgia you regularly voice is worrisome. My year-old daughter, Lila, and I are regularly stopped by women who identify themselves as having “older” or “grown” children, and most don’t sound so happy…
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Life Why I Hide Teen Vogue From My Teen
Teen Vogue magazine began mysteriously arriving in our mail a couple of months ago (probably because I subscribe to Vogue proper and the algorithms know how old my children are), and I am doing my best to keep it away from my 13-year-old daughter. I take a quick look through it and then tuck it…
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