Two Jewish boys foster a friendship.

A Hollywood screenwriter jettisons to studio boss.

An intolerant post goes viral and divides a community in California.

A well-to-do Jewish girl rebuffs her family’s traditional values to become an actress.

After 18 years of spousal abuse, a woman and her son escape.

In 1953, the author predicted electronic devices would replace banned books.

The healthy–and disturbed pieces of the author’s relationship with her mother.

Dinner, and then … murder.

From an impoverished childhood in Ireland to an equally difficult life in New York.

The former NPR host of All Things Considered assembles her interviews with Helen Hayes, Rosa Parks, Georgia O’Keefe, and a...

Accommodating to the jolt of a new life; by the author of Widow.

After a long time alone, a prolific writer rediscovers romance. By the author of The Women’s Room.