I lost my mother to suicide. That kind of loss does not leave you — it changes how you see everything, including your role as ...

Exclusive: Three years on from the devastating attacks in Nottingham by Valdo Calocane, a public inquiry is examining the failings that may have prevented that fateful day. The triple killer’s mother ...

People often tell me that I’ll become stronger from the loss, but I won’t be happiness-splained out of this tragedy ...

I was nineteen years old, and so very far from God. One evening several friends and I were drinking when someone decided to make prank phone calls. They dialed the number of a girl who was still in ...

As Mother’s Day approaches I thought I would share a few traits I have learned from three remarkable mothers in my life — my mom, my wife, mother of our five children, and my grown daughter, mother of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. My first thought: Wow, the Brits are going to love this. Tabloid heaven. The United ...

Jurica Pavičić, trans. from the Croatian by Matt Robinson. Bitter Lemon, $17.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-916725-31-7 Croation novelist and screenwriter Pavičić (Red Water) delivers a desperate ...

In the beginning, I was the golden child. My mom told me that before I was born, she was grappling with both an unhappy mistake of a marriage and a 4-year-old who had kicking, screaming tantrums every ...

My mother is a difficult person. My younger sister is estranged from her. As the older daughter, I have always felt a responsibility to maintain a relationship with her. However, my first child is now ...

“Your granddaughter needs to go to a hospital in Nashville for her depression,” I told my 95-year-old mother. “She’ll be away a few months.” My mother sat in her easy chair in stony silence. After my ...