Mother
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Arts
A Universe of Inspirations Swirls Within ‘Janet Planet’
The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut.
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Arts
‘Saturday Night Live’ Wishes You a Happy Mother’s Day
The “S.N.L.” veteran Maya Rudolph hosted an episode that featured multiple sketches celebrating moms.
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Politics
Rita, Anita, My Mother and Me
Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when…
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Magazine
Should I Push My Husband to Ask for More of His Mother’s Estate?
When a woman tries to remedy a relative’s unequal generosity to her children using her own estate, her daughter-in-law wonders…
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Food
I Didn’t Truly Know My Mother Until I Cooked With Her
To connect with a parent who awes (and occasionally intimidates) everyone around her, the Times reporter Priya Krishna spends time…
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Politics
The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four daughters, wrote in a…
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Arts
Review: In ‘Mother Play,’ Paula Vogel Unboxes a Family Story
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.
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Magazine
Can I Ask My Mother-in-Law Who My Wife’s Biological Father Is?
Although his wife has long maintained that she doesn’t want to know the identity of her birth father, a reader…
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Arts
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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Politics
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…