Sandra Tsing Loh
Recent articles by Sandra Tsing Loh
On Being a Bad Mother
True confessions.
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
The author is ending her marriage. Isn’t it time you did the same?
Class Dismissed
A new status anxiety is infecting affluent hipdom.
Should Women Rule?
A clutch of books suggests they can’t rule like men. But there are other ways to run the world.
I Choose My Choice!
The fruits of the feminist revolution? Sisterhood, empowerment, and eight hours a day in a cubicle.
Tales Out of School
How a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools.
She’s Just Not That Into You
Women prefer food to sex with their husbands—and that’s OK.
The Drama of the Gifted Parent
Hey! Leave those kids alone!
Cheap Thrills
A story of American women in financial jeopardy.
Rhymes With Rich
One woman’s conscientious objection to the “mommy wars”.
The Secret of the Old Saw
Nancy Drew has two mommies.
The Great Escape
A grudging salute to an absentee mom.
Kiddie Class Struggle
One mom's breast-milk-curdling tour of lower education's higher end.
Marshal Plan
The age of parents as friends is over.
A Gloom of One's Own
Demanding women with demanding lives, and the men who love them.
Shopworn
Like the Valley Girls who made it famous, the suburban mall is now on the wrong side of forty.
Burgher Deluxe
The benefits of conspicuous consumption are conspicuously overlooked.
Nannyhood and Apple Pie
As capitalism's "latest recruits," American women may know less than their nannies about loving care.
The Baby Experts
The high anxiety of child-rearing.