Grief

Diana and me: the writer who told Damian Barr to tell it as it was

The author of Maggie & Me remembers his late friend, the writer and editor Diana Athill

Sarfraz Manzoor: ‘We tell stories so the dead might live again’

The loss of his parents 30 years apart led Sarfraz Manzoor to reflect on the duty we have to tell others’ stories – with Bruce Springsteen playing a walk-on role in keeping their memory alive

In Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl celebrates friendship – and soup

The playwright dramatises her correspondence with the poet Max Ritvo in a moving show about deep friendship – and soup

How a Japanese phone box changed the way we grieve

After a 9.1-magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan in 2011, a phone box in a retiree's garden became a place for thousands to mourn, and speak to the dead. Then, it kickstarted a global phenomenon