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After the novelist Geraldine Brooks lost her husband, she postponed confronting the enormous loss—until it became impossible ...

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Jaouad, who is also a journalist and painter, served on Barack Obama's Presidential Cancer Panel and won an Emmy for the ...

Black Box Diaries' director Shiori Itō talks finding a visual language for her own reporting, which often demanded naps on the edit couch.

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The video was made by an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur using AI, which Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin says means that it revealed far ...

Perfectionism has a dark side, says Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Boston University, in her new book "How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and ...

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.