Meghan Riordan Jarvis, who specializes in grief and loss, shares her favorite books for different kinds of grief, for readers of all ages I grew up in a house filled with books and book-lovers. My ...
The American Psychiatric Association added prolonged grief disorder to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2022, and though the move was not universally applauded—“There is no ...
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, The Story ...
A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss. When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we ...
About a year and a half ago, I saw a tree that I thought might remember my mother. I was taking a family road trip that occasioned an overnight stop in Milford, Connecticut, the town where she lived ...
Near the beginning of her triptych on mourning—“Grief Is for People” is the account of three shocks in quick succession—the memoirist Sloane Crosley warns there is nothing essentially edifying about ...
While she blogged about her 17-year-old daughter, she also began writing a book, “The Woman Called Grief,” in which she ...
The idea for my book, The Last Poem, started while I was listening. At an event hosted for me in New York, people had gathered for a casual afternoon, less sit-down, more mingle. Small clusters of ...
Author and podcast host Natasha Smith tackles grief that is specific to Black women in her new book Black Woman Grief (InterVarsity Press, Feb. 2025). PW talked with her about providing ways for Black ...
Death is blue, or a flying animal. This is how death is most commonly illustrated in Swedish children’s literature, according to a new study from Uppsala University based on analyses of 62 books. Just ...
This week, I experienced one of the most profound losses in my life—the sudden and unexpected passing of a dear friend. This kind of loss shakes you to your core, altering not just your world but ...
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