Didion's most famous essay was about my mother's murder trial, set in California's broken dream. It turned out to be right. Contributor: I thought Joan Didion's essay would ruin my life.

Ryan Harman lost her mom to cancer last year. In an essay for her English class, she divulged the heart-wrenching journey from diagnosis to death — bringing the internet and her West Virginia ...

The many knots in the mother-child bond are the subject of the new essay collection What My Mother and I Don't Talk About. The collection includes essays by 15 notable writers, ...

A mother whose teen son struggles with a learning disability urged him to turn in an essay written by ChatGPT — and was pretty pleased with the results.

Virginia Woolf was 13 when her mother, Julia Stephen, died of rheumatic fever in 1895. Now essays by mother and daughter have been joined for the first time in a volume published by the nonprofit ...