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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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Jessica Lange and Paula Vogel on Breaking, and Keeping, the Family Contract
In the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to…
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‘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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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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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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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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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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When Your Mom Is Famous for Hating Motherhood
In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who…
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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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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…