Books of the Times: Families Lost, and the Ties That Fray
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire both show middle-class lives thrown into crisis
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It is difficult to find anything positive about war, but the pictures in the news of children and their military fathers loving each other have been heart-rending. They remind us that there is nothing on Earth more precious and sacred than the love between fathers and their children.
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"A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the book James Agee wrote.
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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Comment is free: Ian Jack: To read the diaries of Anne Morrow Lindbergh is to be taken to the heart of parental anguish.
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Arts & entertainment: The author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian on family ties, her second novel - and never giving up.
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LONDON: A British housewife has inherited one of the most important books in English literature from a distant relative she never knew existed.
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Talking about parentsÂ funeral plans can be uncomfortable but it can resolve important issues.
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The human beings behind the business headlines can sometimes become lost.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.âs more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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"Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves" (HarperCollins; 288 pages; $24.95) &#151; China Galland: In her search for hidden details of her own family's history, China Galland stumbles onto an overgrown burial ground for slaves and gets to know the descendants who have been locked out of "Love Cemetery."
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In a relatively short space of time, Sharon Jackson lost her mother, her sister, and her job and came within a whisker of losing her home of 20 years as well.
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Arts & entertainment: Jason Cowley traces the story of the mental and spiritual decline of a gifted writer and close friend
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause
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AS each hour passes, anguish and despair mounts for relatives of a beloved Victorian family of four, missing in the ravaged Asian region hit by the tsunami.