Two new movies address the impossible, ordinary, maddening task of keeping both yourself and a child alive.

How do you let others influence you while retaining your own ideas? Four literary critics tried to find out.

The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read.

In her new book, the anonymous author assembles the fragments of her 24-year struggle to assert her own identity.

Anonymity allowed Elena Ferrante to make art in a misogynistic world. A male journalist took that away from her.