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Three Daughters, Three New Memoirs About Mothers

Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.

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Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse

If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair…

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What if Mom’s Not to Blame?

In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re…

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Aleksei Navalny’s Body Was Returned to His Mother, Allies Say

The Russian authorities have transferred the body, ending a grim battle for custody of his remains.

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Toxic Beauty Standards Can Be Passed Down

When my best friend and I lived together 13 years ago, our shared bathroom had a handful of products: soap,…

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‘Munich Medea: Happy Family’ Review: A Friendship Crushed by the Past

Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful…

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The Inscrutable Glamour of Melania Trump’s Mother

In public, Amalija Knavs did not adhere to the stereotypes of an American grandmother.

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Sweetie, I’ll Be Back at 2 A.M.

Some parents, anxious about their child staying in someone else’s home, are choosing “sleepunders” — picking the kids up in…

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Children Born During the War in Gaza Will Never Truly Escape It

After Israel began its invasion of Gaza shortly after Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, Aya Khrais — a pregnant 26-year-old…

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Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87

Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays…

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