Laura Mauldin explores long and intensive caregiving, the devastation of losing a partner, and the process of healing, in part through having and loving a child....

Steven Shaviro reviews "Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth," a new academic collection of weird ecocriticism edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund....

Jacque Gorelick explores her grief upon her breast cancer diagnosis, her experience of her treatment program, and the fear that she will have fewer Thanksgivings with her children....

Glenn Harper reviews Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule,” a legal thriller about a law student’s complicated personal ties with a project that’s working to overturn a convicted murderer’s death sentence....