Mother
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Books
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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News
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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World
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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News
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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Arts
‘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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
Even in Their Anguish, These Israeli Survivors Say Invading Gaza Won’t Help
No one understands terrorism more viscerally than Maoz Inon: His 78-year-old father and 75-year-old mother were among those massacred by…
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