New ways to kill your mother: writers and their families

Jane Austen, Henry James, and the death of the mother - -Ireland. W.B. Yeats: new ways to kill your father ; Willie and George ; New ways to kill your mother: Synge and his family ; Beckett meets his afflicted mother ; Brian Moore: out of Ireland have I come, great hatred, little room ; Sebastian Barry's fatherland ; Roddy Doyle and Hugo Hamilton: the dialect of the tribe

Elsewhere. Thomas Mann: new ways to spoil your children ; Borges: a father in his shadow ; Hart Crane: escape from home ; Tennessee Williams and the ghost of Rose ; John Cheever: new ways to make your family's life a misery ; Baldwin and "the American confusion" ; Baldwin and Obama: men without fathers.