Léonie Hampton’s book In the Shadow of Things (Contrasto, 2011) documents her mother’s struggle with OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder). Léonie writes for LightBox about the project. It’s hard to ...

An elderly woman dies, and her three adult sons cling to each other, weeping, before turning on the duty nurse. She hadn’t seen their mother once, they blurt to the doctor. It wouldn’t have made any ...

On the season finale of Dancing Queens, we watched as the women dueled it out at Millennium. Leonie Biggs may not have won the top prize there, but she is still looking ahead to a delightfully ...

In the biopic “Leonie,” the famous artists in a Japanese American family — the sculptor-architect Isamu Noguchi and his writer father — are supporting characters. The “woman behind the men,” Leonie ...

Leonie Brandt was an interesting historical character but a lack of curiosity and reliance on re-enactment obfuscates rather than illuminates How do you make a film about someone of whom there exists ...

Failing to carve anything graceful or fluid out of a slab of biography, helmer Hisako Matsui does bring to light a curious and intriguing story of a great-woman-behind-a-great-man in “Leonie” — namely ...

In the games and months — most of the season, really — before Leonie Fiebich’s breakout moment, before the Liberty’s lineup switch Sunday that slid her into the starting group for Game 1 against the ...

Leonie Baigan was excited to have a new baby sister or brother on the way, but two days before she was due to find out the baby's gender by popping a balloon she took her own life. The 20-year-old, ...

Parthenogenesis -- a natural form of asexual reproduction -- is something that's common amongst plant species, insects, amphibians and many other life forms. Meaning "virgin creation" in Greek, it ...