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motherhood
June 20, 2022
Magazine
Joanna Scutts
The End of the Art-Baby Problem
In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.
April 28, 2022
Melody Schreiber
Work Isn’t the Enemy of Good Parenting
Lara Bazelon’s book argues that children benefit from seeing their mothers pursue careers.
January 7, 2022
Jo Livingstone
The Lost Daughter
and
C’mon C’mon
Take on the Disorientation of Parenthood
Two new movies address the impossible, ordinary, maddening task of keeping both yourself and a child alive.
December 23, 2021
Magazine
Lidija Haas
Parallel Mothers
Confronts the Legacies of Fascism
Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.
August 31, 2021
Kirsten Denker
Deborah Levy’s Luminous Investigation of Female Ambition
In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking, intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing.
June 19, 2020
Jo Livingstone
In
Miss Juneteenth,
a Mother’s Dream Deferred
A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.
January 22, 2020
Maximillian Alvarez
Mothers Against Vampire Real Estate
In response to a reformist chorus directing them to wait, Moms 4 Housing opted to address a housing crisis with immediate action—and won.
August 7, 2018
Rachel Vorona Cote
Mothering and Unmothering
Laura June’s memoir examines a set of dissonant and, ultimately, redeeming relationships.
April 25, 2018
Maggie Doherty
On Not Becoming a Mother
In her new novel “Motherhood,” Sheila Heti reflects on fate, agency, and time.
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