Atlantic Unbound Archive

Sandra Tsing Loh

Recent articles by Sandra Tsing Loh

December 2009

On Being a Bad Mother

True confessions.

July/August 2009

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

The author is ending her marriage. Isn’t it time you did the same?

March 2009

Class Dismissed

A new status anxiety is infecting affluent hipdom.

November 2008

Should Women Rule?

A clutch of books suggests they can’t rule like men. But there are other ways to run the world.

July/August 2008

I Choose My Choice!

The fruits of the feminist revolution? Sisterhood, empowerment, and eight hours a day in a cubicle.

March 2008

Tales Out of School

How a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools.

March 2007

She’s Just Not That Into You

Women prefer food to sex with their husbands—and that’s OK.

October 2006

The Drama of the Gifted Parent

Hey! Leave those kids alone!

July/August 2006

Cheap Thrills

A story of American women in financial jeopardy.

May 2006

Rhymes With Rich

One woman’s conscientious objection to the “mommy wars”.

October 2005

The Secret of the Old Saw

Nancy Drew has two mommies.

September 2005

The Great Escape

A grudging salute to an absentee mom.

June 2005

Kiddie Class Struggle

One mom's breast-milk-curdling tour of lower education's higher end.

March 2005

Marshal Plan

The age of parents as friends is over.

October 2004

A Gloom of One's Own

Demanding women with demanding lives, and the men who love them.

June 2004

Shopworn

Like the Valley Girls who made it famous, the suburban mall is now on the wrong side of forty.

December 2003

Burgher Deluxe

The benefits of conspicuous consumption are conspicuously overlooked.

October 2003

Nannyhood and Apple Pie

As capitalism's "latest recruits," American women may know less than their nannies about loving care.

May 2003

The Baby Experts

The high anxiety of child-rearing.