The XX Factor : Rebecca Walker, motherhood

Narcissim Isn't the Whole Issue

Lucy Morrow Caldwell — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:33:00 GMT

Rebecca Walker may be a narcissist, but this quality alone is not what bothers me. Her mother Alice has been called the same, yet in the older Walker’s groundbreaking 1983 novel The Color Purple , she managed to forge some meaningful social commentary....(read more)

Walker vs. Walker

Nina Shen Rastogi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:42:00 GMT

A few weeks ago, memoirist Rebecca Walker published an essay in the U.K.’s Daily Mail titled “How my mother's fanatical views tore us apart,” which has been making the American Internet rounds in recent days. The mother in question is Alice Walker, prominent...(read more)