This magnificent new collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt, whose topics range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience, and the books we turn to during a pandemic, is on full display of her relentlessly inquisitive mind and expansive intellect. In a brilliant intellectual trip that is both personal and universal, she investigates the porousness of borders of all types, drawing on both family history and her own life and experiences. In the end, Mothers, Fathers, and Others serves as a reminder that the distinctions we make between ourselves and others and between art and viewer are far less solid than we would think.