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“They Are the Mothers!” From Goethe to Cusk, Halting Progress for Moms

“They Are the Mothers!” From Goethe to Cusk, Halting Progress for Moms

Jennifer Banks Wants to Drag Motherhood Out of the Mud

By Jennifer Banks | May 12, 2023

Mirror, Mirror: On the Intersection of Beauty, Power, and Motherhood

Mirror, Mirror: On the Intersection of Beauty, Power, and Motherhood

Rouge">From Mona Awad's Forthcoming Novel Rouge

By Mona Awad | May 12, 2023

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

“And so, I kept pumping the bellows, trying to keep the fire between us burning.”

By Kelly McMasters | May 9, 2023

“I Never Saw Her Cry.” Terry McDonell Remembers His Mother, Irma

“I Never Saw Her Cry.” Terry McDonell Remembers His Mother, Irma

“What passes between a mother and a son is not defined by her love in the moment, but later by the echoes of her motherhood.”

By Terry McDonell | May 1, 2023

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Finding Freedom in, and From, Motherhood

By Claire Dederer | April 25, 2023

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

Amanda Parrish Morgan on Claire Dederer, Mary Shelley, Rachel Yoder, and the Warped Self

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | April 24, 2023

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You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

By Mary Louise Kelly | April 19, 2023

Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

By Maggie Smith | April 12, 2023

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

By Szilvia Molnar | March 21, 2023

Olivia Colman on playing her latest mother monster:

Olivia Colman on playing her latest mother monster: "My little girl wouldn't cuddle me."

By Janet Manley | March 20, 2023

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Bad Hobby and Sycamore">Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore

By Peter Mishler | March 15, 2023

Moms are superheroes? Yes, here's 11 books to prove it.

Moms are superheroes? Yes, here's 11 books to prove it.

By Janet Manley | March 13, 2023

Saving Time as a New Mother: Rachel Ranie Taube Reads Jenny Odell"> On <em

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"Time becomes less an inevitable, external thing spread in front of you, and instead a thing you generate in concert."

By Rachel Ranie Taube | March 7, 2023

Wanting a Child Makes No Goddamn Sense: Tiphanie Yanique on the Hope and Grief of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Wanting a Child Makes No Goddamn Sense: Tiphanie Yanique on the Hope and Grief of Pregnancy and Childbirth

“There is nothing logical about wanting to have a baby.”

By Tiphanie Yanique | February 2, 2023

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

Janet Manley on Hettie Judah and the Perennial Problem of the “Mother-Shaped Hole”

By Janet Manley | January 13, 2023

Memoirs of a Spacewoman"> The Optimistic, Expansive Visions of Pregnancy and Motherhood in the 1962 Novel <em

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Memoirs of a Spacewoman">The Optimistic, Expansive Visions of Pregnancy and Motherhood in the 1962 Novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman

Jenni Quilter on Reproductive Possibility in Naomi Mitchison’s Speculative Fiction

By Jenni Quilter | December 13, 2022

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