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Gwendoline Riley's novels ''My Phantoms'' and ''First Love'' consider the sway and scourge of family ties. MY PHANTOMS, by Gwendoline RileyFIRST LOVE, by Gwendoline Riley Toward the end of ''My [...]

THE FELLBy Sarah Moss Apocalypse isn't what it used to be, as a character muses halfway through the British novelist Sarah Moss's ''The Fell.'' Nowadays, ''humanity's ending appears to be [...]

BURNTCOATBy Sarah Hall Disaster spurs Edith Harkness, the sculptor protagonist of Sarah Hall's novel ''Burntcoat,'' to heights of productivity. She feels at home in it, assuming the confidence implicit in [...]

The article discusses the career, accomplishments, and films of Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai. Topics explored include the relaunch of his feature film "The Hand" at the 2020 film exhibition "The World of Wong Kar Wai" in the U.S., the way his films tend to address subjects such as love, betrayal, and autonomy, and the notable recognition earned by his films such as "As Tears Go By," "Chungking Express," and "In the Mood For Love."

THE TREE AND THE VINE By Dola de Jong To describe as doomed a love that begins in 1938 between two European women is to risk tautology. Yet the problems [...]

Byline: Lidija Haas Something in the Water The hallucinatory realism of Rachel Ingalls. tifIllustration by Chloe CushmanIn Ingalls's vision of intimacy, you're not safe until everybody else is dead.61 A [...]

The article discusses the abuse, harassment and assault of employees in the workplace by people by men with power, within the context of the #MeToo movement and the sexual assault allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. It comments on a work environment that allows for sexual assault, including in regard to creating something similar to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the post-apartheid era as a solution.

Byline: Lidija Haas The Disbelieved In women's memoirs of illness, doctors as well as diseases pose problems. tifPhotograph by Frances F. Denny for The New YorkerPorochista Khakpour admits that she [...]

The article discusses Lena Dunham's characters in various movies and television series. It presents related to her life experiences, talking about her skills, the character she played in the movies, and the influence she had on the audiences. It also mentions various series including Girls, Friends, Sex and the City.

The article discusses the counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who are in a relationship. Topics include the Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) base on the attachment, conceptualization of the negative, rigid interaction patterns and absorbing negative affect and counseling to educate and assist couples with understanding the process of regaining trust.

QUICKSANDBy Malin Persson Giolito Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles 501 pp. Other Press. $25.95. ''Quicksand'' is a novel that begins like a parlor game gone awry: On its first page, a [...]

The article discuses the affairs causing the abortion in women's life. Topics include Annie Ernaux's book "Simple Passion" about her total absorption in an affair with a married Russian diplomat; her abortion after her lover's abrupt departure and her book "Happening" expalining about that unwanted pregnancy that nearly derailed her life.

The article explores INSIDE THE SOOTHING, edgeless white of an Apple Genius Bar in Palo Alto, two blondehaired women widen their innocent eyes at each other across an unbridgeable gulf of understanding. One is a Genius for hire; the other, played by Amanda Siegfried, is Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout who founded the startup Theranos, claimed the company could run hundreds of medical tests using a mere finger prick of blood.

STEALING THE SHOW: HOW WOMEN ARE REVOLUTIONIZING TELEVISION BY JOY PRESS new york: atria books 320 pages. $26. One side effect of the Trump presidency so far--among the mildest and [...]

ELLE BY PHILIPPE DJIAN, TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY MICHAEL KATIMS New York: Other Press. 208 pages. $16. When Paul Verhoeven claims he had no choice but to make his latest [...]

THE IDIOT BY ELIF BATUMAN NEW YORK: PENGUIN PRESS. 432 PAGES. $27 Among those who consider themselves serious readers, it's seen as infra dig to treat literature as self-help. Fiction [...]

FUTURE SEX BY EMILY WITT NEW YORK: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 224 PAGES. $25. You are heading into the future on a voyage of sexual discovery, and here is what [...]

Early in the war, Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), an Austrian farmer who lives in a remote village with his wife, Fani (Valerie Pachner), and their children, is called up to fight. Malick offers this as a kind of philosophical test case and religious allegory - and indeed the real Jägerstätter, though unheralded for years after his execution at 36, was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church decades later. At one point, in prison, his lawyer offers to negotiate a deal in which Franz need not serve, instead working out the war as an orderly in a hospital, treating civilians. [Extracted from the article]