Browsing: deaf

I’ve spent my life determined to be one of a kind – perhaps because I’m a twin. During our birth, my younger-by-two-minutes brother’s umbilical cord wrapped…

Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon’s brilliant nonfiction book about parenting children different from oneself, offers the useful distinction between vertical and horizontal identities. Vertical identities…

In Vasenka, a fictional town under military occupation, a deaf boy is shot by soldiers and the town’s inhabitants become deaf in response. The opening of…

When Raymond Antrobus was a child, he writes in his new book, The Quiet Ear, his father would call him “white” when he was drunk, and…

Shoshannah Stern’s study of Marlee Matlin is a film with a real story to tell, about a woman who became a compelling figure in American public…