Parenthood is an act often taken for granted. I know this personally as the mom of a 6-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son. I also understand it as a daughter; my mom died before I had the ...

The GREAT thing about broadly ambitious movies that strike a chord with mainstream audiences is that they often inspire equally ambitious critical theories about their message and themes -- or, in ...

Children's book author Peter Brown wrote his original "Wild Robot" book in Maine and now lives there among nature. (Yoon S. Byun / For The Times) There are rare moments in the culture when a ...

There are rare moments in the culture when a children's book resonates with everyone. Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow ...