It happened before she expected it: Victoria Chang’s parents were struck by illness. First her father was severely debilitated by a stroke; then her mother died. She felt so isolated by caregiving ...

Six years ago, filmmaker Vanessa Gould wrote to a half-dozen newspapers around the world with the news that Eric Joisel, the origami artist who was the subject of her first documentary, Between the ...

There’s the old saying that you die twice: once when your physical body expires and then when the last person remembers you. For the Obituary desk at the New York Times, their job is memorialize those ...

One year at Christmas, Mary McGreevy’s family went around the table and shared headlines for their obituaries. McGreevy’s mother, who worked as a journalist, journalism professor and later a personal ...

When an anxious soon-to-be father returns to his estranged dad's chaotic New York apartment, he's pulled into a messy, darkly funny confrontation with family history, forgotten memories, and the ...