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Mother’s Day

Posted inEditor's Pick

If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark

by Sari Botton May 9, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark

by Debbie Weingarten May 9, 2019October 19, 2022

Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark

by Debbie Weingarten May 9, 2019October 19, 2022

Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Game of Crones

by Laura Lippman May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Game of Crones

by Laura Lippman May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Posted inReading List

A Reading List for Mother’s Day

by Emily Perper May 14, 2017October 19, 2022

There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Nora Ephron's Son Describes a Rare Glimpse of His Mother's Vulnerability

by Longreads May 11, 2014October 19, 2022

Last year, Jacob Bernstein wrote about his mother Nora Ephron’s last days for The New York Times Magazine. In the following excerpt, Bernstein writes about the moment he learned that his mother’s aggressive blood disorder had turned into leukemia and saw his mother in a rare state of vulnerability: When I arrived in her room, […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Discovering a Mother's Other Life

by heymarkarms May 10, 2014October 19, 2022

It takes us a long time, as children, to get outside of ourselves and realize our parents have lives outside the scope of us. Not just lives before us, or lives after we move out, but wholly private lives that run concurrent with our own upbringing. As her daughter, it took me nearly 20 years […]

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

Reading List: Mother’s Day

by Emily Perper May 9, 2013October 19, 2022

With Mother’s Day on the horizon, I chose “mothers/relationship with moms” as the theme of my list this week: * * * 1. My Mom (Mary H. K. Choi, Aeon, April 2013) A deceptively simple title belies a gorgeous, funny, sometimes dark essay in which Choi attempts to communicate her strange affection for her mother. 2. The Love […]

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

Reading List: Mother’s Day

by Emily Perper May 9, 2013October 19, 2022

With Mother’s Day on the horizon, I chose “mothers/relationship with moms” as the theme of my list this week: * * * 1. My Mom (Mary H. K. Choi, Aeon, April 2013) A deceptively simple title belies a gorgeous, funny, sometimes dark essay in which Choi attempts to communicate her strange affection for her mother. 2. The Love […]

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