is the time I use to write. These pieces share a similar theme, that motherhood’s sacrifice and banality are in direct contradiction with the quiet and self-focus necessary to curate a career ...

“I think it’s time for me to go back to work,” I told ... I still couldn’t get my shit together to be an acceptable mother, my brain felt too dead to respond to her attitude.

Fashion photographer Heck, whose image from his personal work is on this week’s cover, talked about its creation with TIME ... learning from his mother. “The first painting of hers I ...