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Letter writer’s kids want her new man at their events, but he said he would have “a very hard time being civil” to their father. Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit ...

January 29, 2026 • The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and circles back to it again ...