At that moment, with my phone in my hand, I didn’t know how to react. ‘Go along with it’ is often the advice given when dealing with people who have dementia. But should I remind my mum that her own ...

In one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic novel “Spent,” the writer/cartoonist has drawn herself — or, more precisely, a loosely fictionalized protagonist named Alison — pulling Karl ...