How Mom and I outran the tornado
On a tumultuous cross-country road trip to a new life, I saw how powerful my mother was -- and how vulnerable
Sunday, May 9, 2010 3:01 PM UTC 10Life Mother's Day, Memoirs, Motherhood
Kate Moses
Life Mother's Day, Memoirs, Motherhood
Whose Plath is it anyway?
England's longest-running literary soap opera enters a new chapter, as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter wages war against ghouls, obsessives and the makers of "Sylvia" (as well as novelists like me).
Friday, Oct 17, 2003 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Poetry, Books
Lady Lazarus
In this excerpt from "Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath," Plath's marriage begins to unravel.
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003 9:25 PM UTCLife
Ode to Frances
Who would have known that Russell Hoban's tales of a badger would teach generations of children the difficult work of becoming human?
Tuesday, Apr 17, 2001 10:53 PM UTCLife
The real Sylvia Plath
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals support a little-known theory that PMS drove her to suicide. Second of two parts.
Thursday, Jun 1, 2000 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Books
The real Sylvia Plath
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons -- and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. First of two parts.
Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Books
From household saint to social pariah
In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart let it slip that the real reason she's leaving Westport, Conn., is because she's lonely.
Tuesday, Apr 11, 2000 4:00 PM UTCLife New Jersey, Noble Beasts
“Men in the Off Hours” by Anne Carson
The poet's breathtaking fourth collection takes in the picnic of sex and love and death that time spreads in its wake.
Wednesday, Apr 5, 2000 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Poetry, Books
Witness for the persecution
Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic tells a story of breathtaking brutality. We interview her about her new novel and her experiences.
Thursday, Mar 9, 2000 5:00 PM UTCLife Adoption, Pregnancy
Everyday genius
Joanna Scott's visionary new novel tells the story of an orphan torn between black and white grandparents.
Thursday, Mar 2, 2000 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Why they never told us
First novelist Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talks about the silence surrounding the Japanese internment camps, being "stealth Japanese" and writing herself into two children.
Friday, Sep 17, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife World War II
Happy birthday, Miss Welty
America's greatest living short story writer turns 90.
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1999 7:27 PM UTCEntertainment
Back to the future
Alas, summer isn't endless after all. And there's a whiff of peanut butter at its conclusion.
Thursday, Sep 3, 1998 7:00 PM UTCLife
He should stay
The pundits blather about Hillary's "humiliation," but she would only be disgraced if her husband were forced out of office.
Wednesday, Aug 19, 1998 4:16 PM UTCNews Hillary Rodham Clinton
He should stay
The pundits blather about Hillary's "humiliation," but she would only be disgraced if her husband were forced out of office.
Thursday, Jul 30, 1998 7:00 PM UTCNews Hillary Rodham Clinton
How to ruin your kid's summer vacation
If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
Wednesday, Jun 10, 1998 4:53 PM UTCLife Disney, Martha Stewart
Time for One Thing: The worst mother who ever lived and other light reading
Three new books -- 'Medea' by Christa Wolf, 'Hacienda' by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran and 'The Autobiography of Red, A Novel in Verse' by Anne Carson -- take on stories of mythic proportions. Reviewed by Salon staffers Kate Moses, Dawn MacKeen and Karen Templer; introduction by Kate Moses
Tuesday, Apr 28, 1998 7:00 PM UTCLife
Peep show
A grown-up bite of a favorite childhood candy resurrects one mom's loss of innocence and a remembrance of Easters past.
Friday, Apr 10, 1998 5:42 PM UTCLife Easter
The Good Father
Ted Hughes' 'Birthday Letters' makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children.
Friday, Feb 6, 1998 7:09 PM UTCLife Fiction, Poetry
Time for one thing: I'll be sick for Christmas
This holiday season, make time for getting sick.
Tuesday, Dec 16, 1997 8:00 PM UTCLife Christmas, Thanksgiving
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