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‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Can Help Children Cope with COVID-era Death

‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Can Help Children Cope with COVID-era Death

As the COVID-19 pandemic upends our families, communities, and way of life, children, especially, struggle with loss. Rachel Shukert's Netflix series, The Baby-Sitters Club can help.

‘All the Lives We Ever Lived’ Finds Comfort in Mourning with Virginia Woolf

‘All the Lives We Ever Lived’ Finds Comfort in Mourning with Virginia Woolf

These days, when personal grief becomes a public performance on social media, it's heartening to have a book such as Katharine Smyth's All the Lives We Ever Lived, wherein deep introspection is given space and literature provides both solace and inspiration.

‘The Widower’s Notebook’ Compassionately Explores How Men Are Allowed to Grieve

‘The Widower’s Notebook’ Compassionately Explores How Men Are Allowed to Grieve

Enduring loss and grief is never easy but it's rendered remarkably in Santlofer's work.

Sallie Tisdale Offers Practical Advice for Future Corpses…and Those Who Love Them

Sallie Tisdale Offers Practical Advice for Future Corpses…and Those Who Love Them

Grief is large and luminous.

Oscar-Snubbed ‘Foxtrot’ Is a Deft Commentary on Systemic Corruption and Grief

Oscar-Snubbed ‘Foxtrot’ Is a Deft Commentary on Systemic Corruption and Grief

What do we even know about war, Foxtrot seems to ask, except that it's a dance that will surely never end.

Films in ‘Found at Mostly Lost’ Are Mostly Concerned With Avoiding the Police

Films in ‘Found at Mostly Lost’ Are Mostly Concerned With Avoiding the Police

Tramps, dapper husbands, fake dinosaurs and young William Frawley.
‘The Walking Dead: Michonne’ Confronts the Issues of Surviving Grief and Trauma

‘The Walking Dead: Michonne’ Confronts the Issues of Surviving Grief and Trauma

Grief and trauma always seems a side venture to The Walking Dead's plots, never the central focus. Michonne seems to want to put these concerns front and center.
‘H Is for Hawk’ and for Healing

‘H Is for Hawk’ and for Healing

This book about grief and hawks and T.H. White is so beautifully written that even readers unable to tell robins from parakeets will be entranced.

‘Silent Souls’ Is a Quiet Reflection on Life and Death

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