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Illustration: Guardian Design Illustration: Guardian DesignAsk Annalisa BarbieriParents and parentingIt’s no wonder you are furious, despite your husband’s attitude improving. But living with this resentment is not sustainable My husband and I have been married for seven years, and we have three young children. Before we got married, we talked about having kids and both agreed we wanted three. However, when I got pregnant with our first, my husband didn’t seem to care.

Race This article is more than 4 years oldSephora to shut US stores for diversity training after SZA racial profiling claimThis article is more than 4 years oldR&B singer SZA, who is black, said in April she was racially profiled at a Sephora store in Calabasas The Sephora beauty chain will close all its US stores, distribution centers and corporate offices on Wednesday to conduct diversity training for employees, after a racial incident involving a Grammy-nominated singer.

Untitled, c1929 by Maurice Tabard.Untitled, c1929 by Maurice Tabard.The big picturePhotographyThe French photographer – ​once Man Ray’s assistant – helped pioneer many of the signature techniques of surrealism The avant-garde artist and gallerist ELT Mesens was crucial to the spread and promotion of surrealism in 1920s Paris and Brussels – and later in 1930s London. A friend of André Breton and Man Ray and “soulmate” of René Magritte, he was instrumental in (briefly) bringing together the rival Belgian and French artists in the group.

SEMANTIC ENIGMASWhat is the derivation of the expression 'ok'? And is ok short for okay or okay long for ok? Carol Rapley, Twickenham, England Roger Thomas is correct in that OK is short for oll korrect, but it is not of military origin. It started as a comical abbreviation during a fad in New England in the 1830s. Others were OW (oll wright), KY (know yuse, or no use), and NS ('nuff said).

Where to start withBooksThe Nobel prize-winning author’s anti-sentimental writings are frank meditations on love, family, loss, memory and writing, and are an essential read. Here are seven works to get stuck in French author Annie Ernaux has written more than 20 books in a career spanning 50 years. Thanks to her Nobel prize win in 2022, and the commitment of the translators and independent presses who have championed her writing, more and more people in the English-speaking world are discovering her work.

Gerhard RichterGerhard Richter stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries. A new Tate Modern retrospective, Panorama, shows whyIn 2003, Gerhard Richter made several paintings with the same title: Silicate. Large oil-on-canvas pieces, these show latticed rows of light- and dark-grey blobs whose shapes quasi-repeat as they race across the frame, their angle modulating from painting to painting. When angled horizontally, they suggest strips of film bearing identical (or near-identical) sequences but running at different speeds, all of them too fast for any image-content to be made out; when angled askew, they suggest out-of-focus close-ups of a bathmat or worn carpet – or, perhaps, aerial views, similarly out-of-focus, of a gridded city.

Movies This article is more than 16 years oldObituaryDeborah Kerr obituaryThis article is more than 16 years oldRefined, elegant star of Black Narcissus, The King and I and From Here to Eternity who seldom, if ever, gave a weak performanceMany Hollywood actresses of the wartime generation have ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, TV soaps. But Deborah Kerr, who has died aged 86, escaped that.

Brief lettersAgeingLettersFifty is fabulous, so picture the reality Kate Moss at 50 | Vinted’s impact on charity shops | IPP sentences | Pant-throwing prowess I am surprised to see that the feature described on your print front page as “Kate Moss at 50” (‘She keeps us enthralled, like Bowie did’: the magic of Kate Moss, by her photographers, 11 January) appears to be illustrated by an image of Kate Moss at approximately 20.

Republicans Lauren Boebert fixates on public urination in bizarre hearing – video The Republican representative Lauren Boebert raised a peculiar question in a recent US House hearing. She asked whether a revised Washington DC criminal code, which was previously overturned by Congress, had become law. While her question was met with a reminder of the previous decision of Congress, Boebert continued to express interest in whether or not the revised code would have decriminalised public urination.