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Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not.
I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me?
A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife’s Unfathomable Act
Patrick Clancy’s wife killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis. Prosecutors describe a clear-headed scheme, but Clancy says, “I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick.”
Is A.I. Making Mothers Obsolete?
Helen Phillips’s new novel takes place in a dystopian world where the environment has been devastated and humans have outsourced their best selves to tireless, empathetic robots.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“Love Is Blind,” and Allegedly Toxic
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit. Plus, Ilana Glazer’s buddy movie tackles the realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship.
Life in a Luxury Hotel for New Moms and Babies
My month of rest, relaxation, and regret at a Taiwanese postpartum-care center.
Marie NDiaye on Trying to Define Goodness
The author discusses “The Good Denis,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
A Novel About the Therapeutic Impulse and Its Discontents
“Loved and Missed” is a seductive, clear-eyed account of the delights and dangers of caring for others.
My mother will not count as one of war’s casualties. But what do you call someone who loses her country, her parents, her peace of mind, because of war?
In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—by Design
Fearing legal repercussions, doctors in Texas say they are risking grave patient harm to comply with new abortion restrictions.
After my mother’s death, my father plunged the family into evangelicalism, leaving our Jewish faith behind. What, I wondered, would become of our souls?
What We Still Don’t Understand About Postpartum Psychosis
The recent tragedy surrounding Lindsay Clancy and her children underscores popular misconceptions about a grave and mysterious disorder.
A Son and His Mothers Reimagine “Suspiria”
With his series “The Mother of Sighs,” the queer photographer Robert Hickerson shows his parents that horror can be as freeing as it is obscene.
I was dreading going home for Passover.
A Few Math Problems for Mothers
If x is the Monday Jess returns to the office from maternity leave and y is her manager who asks her how she liked “her break” . . . why? Seriously, y.
“I tell the truth in Chinese, I make up stories in English. I don’t take it that seriously.”
My mother was a white woman. Until I was sixteen, I believed that, on my father’s side, I was descended from the enslaved people who had crossed the Atlantic in chains.
“There was no woman, there was a corner, and a corner was no place for a woman to stand, any more than a decent house was any place for her to live.”
A Ukrainian Refugee’s Fight to Save the Family She Left Behind
Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives?
“Do You Want These Old Things I Saved?”: Rhythmic Chants by My Mom
“Do you want, / Do you want, / Do you want / These nice wool blazers? / I wore them to conferences back in the day.”