In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like for babies born in prison. “They don’t know that they are in prison,” she says, “but they know when we force them to leave.” The book’s child protagonist is Suzanna, whose mother has been serving a life sentence for as long as…
My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many different versions of solitaire and slot machine gambling games. In the 1990s my parents bought a desktop computer and my mum started to play mostly card games on it for hours. As technology has progressed, she moved to a…
(RNS) — There are moments when a single person seems to gather the entire story of the Jewish people into her heart. Rachel Goldberg-Polin is a perfect example. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas kidnapped her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, from the Nova Music Festival. He lost part of his arm. Hamas held him as a…
A24’s psychological thriller “Mother Mary” premiered in U.S. theaters last weekend to mixed reviews. Directed by David Lowery, the film explores the strained creative — and, it is implied, romantic — relationship between an aging pop star (Anne Hathaway) and her former costume designer (Michaela Coel). Hathaway’s titular character draws aesthetically and lyrically from religious imagery,…
A grieving mother has ended her life at a clinic in Switzerland four years after the death of her only child. Wendy Duffy, 56, a physically healthy woman, died at the Pegasos clinic in Basel after struggling to cope with the death of her 23-year-old son, Marcus. The former care worker, from the West Midlands,…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Adults caught in the middle of a perfect storm of soaring rent and house prices are finding themselves back living with parents years…
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Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The mother of a victim of the Air India crash has spoken out about the “heartbreaking” moment she received the wrong body to…
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