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To begin with, the Bay Area’s Mr. Hochschild probably should read the New York Times too, for he repeats the misleading critique of this work—taken up with a…

"Children are a crushing responsibility," says Olivia Colman in Maggie Gyllenhaal's disturbing psychodrama, The Lost Daughter, now streaming on Netflix. The sentence encapsulates the white-hot core of the film and turns its gaze on what is often felt but rarely uttered — that mother love is not always unalloyed and unstinted, that it is often mixed up with agony, frustration

Britain’s honours system has evolved over more than 650 years, recognising and rewarding exceptional service and achievements, but there are growing demands for refo...

It’s refreshing that the film The Lost Daughter accepts the complexity of child rearing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

1IN A WORLD WHERE CONTINGENCY has never loomed larger, why not begin with a book found lying on the street? At the beginning of autumn, which seemed like nothing but an extension of a hot, dread-filled summer, I came across a copy of Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia on the sidewalk. When I began flipping through it that evening, I found something completely different from what I had expected. Far from page after numbing page elaborating theoretical constructs, Minima Moralia is a collection of ...

Keri Hulme, the Maori writer who became the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her luminous debut novel, “The Bone Peop

The power Ms. Hulme drew from her Maori heritage shone through in her work, especially in “The Bone People,” which won the literary prize in 1985.

When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.

Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, is best known for her essay collections — “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” “The White Album&#1