J. Howard Rosier

Sep 20, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | J. Howard Rosier |Chiara Marchelli

Parenthood arrived swiftly and gave no quarter. I’d read snatches of What to Expect When You’re Expecting, been gifted Your Self-Confident Baby twice; I added The Birth Partner to a random cart at the recommendation of a midwife in anticipation of my wife’s labor. The books provided comfort and a template for managing expectations, but I was more interested in learning how to maintain my sanity while my identity was pulled in different directions for the sake of keeping a tiny human alive.

Aug 15, 2023 | thenation.com | J. Howard Rosier |Joan Walsh |John Nichols |Alice Waters

In 2014, Adam Shatz’s “Writers or Missionaries” appeared in The Nation, a piece about his relationship, as a Jewish American journalist, to the political conflicts in the Arab-speaking world. The article features, among other anecdotes, a bracing summary of Shatz’s discussion with V.S. Naipaul following 9/11, in which the late novelist divided reporters and journalists into two camps.

May 30, 2023 | theatlantic.com | J. Howard Rosier

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | J. Howard Rosier