Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which have previously been published in The New Yorker and elsewhere ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

One major upside of growing older is that Shakespeare’s plays make ever-greater sense. The Merchant of Venice has terrifying ...

In these short stories her prose is just as enchanting. In the titular story Tabitha walks in iron shoes at the behest of her ...

Your term is about to end,” Italian president De Santis (Toni Servillo) is told, with implications which extend far past politics. Director Paolo Sorrentino is second only to old maestro Marco ...

For most people, the pain of losing a loved one gradually lessens over time. But for others, however, that healing never comes. Instead, grief stays raw, consuming and unrelenting—a condition known as ...

A death doula reflects on the many ways people process loss — even when tears don’t come. By Darnell Lamont Walker Marcus sat down beside me at a hookah lounge in Los Angeles and asked something to ...

On Thursday evenings, Tehran’s largest cemetery comes to life as people flock to pay their respects to lost loved ones. Weeks after thousands were killed in a bloody crackdown on protests against the ...

Dear Eric: About a year ago a good friend lost her mother at an advanced age. Six months later she lost a brother rather suddenly to cancer. We’ve been friends for decades and are now both retired. We ...

Grieving individuals often struggle with decision-making, making open-ended offers of help overwhelming. Supportive actions taken without prompting, such as cleaning or cooking, can significantly ...

What emerges is a portrait of Stanton not as a paragon of feminism but as a deeply peculiar person—one whose combination of vision and hubris happened to change history. This collection of thirteen ...

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