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Mother
The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut.
In the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to…
The “S.N.L.” veteran Maya Rudolph hosted an episode that featured multiple sketches celebrating moms.
Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when…
When a woman tries to remedy a relative’s unequal generosity to her children using her own estate, her daughter-in-law wonders…
To connect with a parent who awes (and occasionally intimidates) everyone around her, the Times reporter Priya Krishna spends time…
“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four daughters, wrote in a…
In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who…
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.