‘Grief Is for People’ Is a Loving Model for Sudden Loss
Grief Is for People is a loving portrait of a dear friend and an offering of shared wisdom for the bereaved rooted in emotional chaos and its subsequent clarity.
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‘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
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
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
Grief is large and luminous.
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
Tramps, dapper husbands, fake dinosaurs and young William Frawley.
‘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
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.
‘Falling Out of Time’ Is a Profound Dissection of Grief
Woven like a colorful tapestry of grieving characters, all of whom have lost a child, Falling Out of Time is structured like an epic poem.