{"id":60347,"date":"2013-09-20T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60347"},"modified":"2013-09-20T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T20:10:50","slug":"substituting-russian-literature-for-sex-ed-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/substituting-russian-literature-for-sex-ed-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Substituting Russian Literature for Sex Ed, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60244\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Anna-Karenina-greta-garbo-4330876-600-450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60244\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60349\" alt=\"Anna-Karenina-greta-garbo-4330876-600-450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Anna-Karenina-greta-garbo-4330876-600-450.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Film still from <em>Anna Karenina<\/em> (1935).<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cJonathan Franzen gripe\u201d or \u201cYouTube comment about saggy pants\u201d? <a href=\"http:\/\/hudsonhongo.com\/franzen\/\" target=\"_blank\">You be the judge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Forget condoms and turn instead to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Gogol, according to a Russian children\u2019s ombudsman. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/19\/russian-literature-sex-education-schools-childrens-ombudsman\" target=\"_blank\">Says Pavel Astakhov<\/a>, \u201cThe best sex education that exists is Russian literature.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The little-known original ending of \u201cThe Frog Prince\u201d (spoiler: there was no kiss) sheds insight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/article\/article09091301.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">why the Brothers Grimm were so grim<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/how-new-digital-tools-are-making-kids-smarter\/article14321886\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University study<\/a> shows evidence that today\u2019s kids are actually writing longer and better essays than people in Twitter-less 1917. However, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/~\/media\/Files\/Reports\/2013\/PIP_NWP%20Writing%20and%20Tech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research poll of teachers<\/a>, children are also writing too informally.<\/li>\n<li>A defense of <a href=\"http:\/\/htmlgiant.com\/random\/buying-books-and-never-reading-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">buying books and never reading them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJonathan Franzen gripe\u201d or \u201cYouTube comment about saggy pants\u201d? You be the judge. Forget condoms and turn instead to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Gogol, according to a Russian children\u2019s ombudsman. Says Pavel Astakhov, \u201cThe best sex education that exists is Russian literature.\u201d The little-known original ending of \u201cThe Frog Prince\u201d (spoiler: there was no kiss) sheds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4738,17,7262,110,4861,448,11885,126,1782],"class_list":["post-60347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anton-chekhov","tag-books","tag-brothers-grimm","tag-jonathan-franzen","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-russian-literature","tag-stanford-university","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Substituting Russian Literature for Sex Ed, and Other News by Justin Alvarez<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 20, 2013 \u2013 \u201cJonathan Franzen gripe\u201d or \u201cYouTube comment about saggy pants\u201d? 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