A humorous account of how the author and her family gave up their bustling city life for a quieter existence...

The gruesome account of how Charles Manson and his followers murdered the actress Sharon Tate, and others.

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...