We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday!   My parents had known each other for only three weeks when my dad asked my mom to marry him. She was stunned by his proposal, and so she…

Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Emily Ruskovich revisits Richard Adams’s Watership Down.  My parents had known each other for only three weeks when my dad asked my mom to mar…