Coming of Age

The Vulnerable Heart of Machismo

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Bank Robbery, Memoir, Quebec, British Columbia, Coming of Age, Crime, Canada, Deni Bechard, Cures for Hunger, Book Reviews, Books News

In men there is something that is not well understood or accepted by the more gentle aspects of modern society. Few writers have captured the full-bodied compulsive pull of it as well as Deni Béchard does in Cures for Hunger.

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Girl in Progress : Coming into Character

Izzy Stambler | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Coming-of-Age, Patricia-Riggen, Catcher in the Rye, Girl in Progress, Hiram Martinez, Teen News

This film is a coming-of-age story with a single mother, Grace, trying to raise her daughter Ansiedad. In this story, Ansiedad studies other coming-of-age stories in order to create her own.

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Moving To Indonesia And Into The Present Tense

Kate Willsky | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta-Indonesia, Coming-of-Age, Southeast Asia, Memory, Travel, Asia, Memories, Travel News

This afternoon, a monsoon opened up the sky and I went onto our sheltered patio and sat on the little couch out there and pulled out my box of Bahasa vocabulary cards

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Movie Review: Turn Me On, Dammit!

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Turn Me on Dammit Movie Review, Coming-of-Age, Turn Me on Dammit, Norway, Movies, Entertainment News

Hollywood has told this story endlessly -- but always about boys, almost never about girls (at least not without a tragic component). Think Porky's. Think American Pie. Think any sex-drenched teen comedy of the past 30 years.

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Wise Words From Our Favorite Rookie

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Women's History Month, Role Model, Cadaver, Rookie Magazine, Tavi Sings, The Style Rookie, Tavi Gevinson, Neil Young, Teenage Girls, Feminism, Femininity, Tavi Gevinson Style Rookie, Video, Style, Coming of Age, Fashion, Slidepollajax, Tavi Gevinson Interview, Arts News

Wunderkind Tavi Gevinson started a style blog when she was only 13. Through her electric granny-chic aesthetic and insightful voice on feminism and gr...

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In Making Undefeated, Directors Defy Odds and Get an Oscar Nom

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Academy Awards, Coming-of-Age, Film, Daniel Lindsay, Sports Film, Documentary, Undefeated Movie, Undefeated Interview, Oscars 2012, Undefeated Academy Award Nominee, Academy Awards 2012, Oscars, Undefeated Documentary, Movies, Entertainment News

Undefeated tells of young men who dare to dream dreams that might surprisingly come true. Just like these two relative newcomers who, in getting this Oscar nom, also have real insight into what it takes to achieve the unexpected.

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PHOTOS: Japanese Teens Come Of Age At Twenty Years Old

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Photos, Photography, Coming of Age, Alcohol, Tradition, Coming-of-Age, Cameras, Japanese, Exposure, Japan, Photojournalism, Voting, Culture, World News

Japanese teens party as they come of age at 20 years old and will finally be allowed to drink, smoke and vote. To see more great photography visit ...

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Failure To Launch

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Oxytocin, Boomerang Children, Coming-of-Age, Millennials, Delayed Adolescence, Tuscany, Teenagers, Detachment Parenting, Young Adults, Prolonged Adolescence, Parenting Gig, Echo Boomers, Attachment Parenting, Failure to Launch, Parental Units, Obnoxious, Generation Y, Fifty News

I used to think that adolescence was the rough ride of parenthood and that once it was over I could cruise to the finish line. But the one thing they ...

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Coming Of Age Under The Third Reich: Films On The Loss Of Innocence

George Heymont | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Christopher and His Kind, Film, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Christopher Isherwood, Tom of Finland, Jan Terlouw, Anti-Semitism, Alexander Freydank, Hine Ma Tov, Winter in Wartime, Hitler, Nazi, Geoffrey Sax, Matt Smith, Imogen Poots, Oorlogswinter, Jews, Coming-of-Age, Arts News

Every hour of every day someone, somewhere, suffers a life-changing loss of innocence. Whether it occurs while watching the news or at gunpoint, wheth...

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18 Questions You Might Want To Ask About Our Interfaith Son's Bar Mitzvah And Coming-Of-Age

Susan Katz Miller | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Interfaith Families, Intermarriage, Interfaith Relations, Bar Mitzvah, Coming-of-Age, Jewish Intermarriage, Christianity, Judaism, Religious Tolerance, Religion News

We honored our interfaith son's transition to adolescence with the essence of the Bar Mitzvah (reading from the Torah and Shabbat prayers), but also included elements drawn from his Christian heritage.

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Why Do Americans Write Such Great Coming-Of-Age Novels?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Coming of Age, Children's Books, Salinger, Writing, Kidlit, Young Adult Novels, Coming-of-Age, Ya Novels, To Kill a Monking Bird, Catcher in the Rye, American Authors, Books News

Is this merely coincidence, or is there something else at work here? Do American writers absorb Bildungsroman aptitude alongside fluoridated water and...

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From Alzheimer's to Auschwitz at 32,000 Feet

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Genocide, Geriatric, The THOuGHTFUL DRESSER, Usairways, Linda Grant, Mid-Life, Coming-of-Age, New Books, Alzheimer's, Wwii, Books, Auschwitz, Books News

This week time spun me around. I traveled back to South Jersey to work against Alzheimer's undignified rip across my mother's golden years. In ...

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"He's Got to Become Independent"

Juliet Linley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Growing Up, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Coming of Age, Kids, Parenting Advice, Moving-Out, Healthy Living News

Sara lives in Rome and has three boys. She nursed them all for 3-4 years; in other words, until they decided of their own accord that they no longer needed the comfort of their mother's breast.

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