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
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 10England'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 UTCIn this excerpt from "Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath," Plath's marriage begins to unravel.
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003 9:25 PM UTCWho 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 UTCHer 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 UTCHer 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 UTCIn 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 UTCThe 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 UTCCroatian 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 UTCJoanna Scott's visionary new novel tells the story of an orphan torn between black and white grandparents.
Thursday, Mar 2, 2000 5:00 PM UTCFirst 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 UTCAmerica's greatest living short story writer turns 90.
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1999 7:27 PM UTCAlas, summer isn't endless after all. And there's a whiff of peanut butter at its conclusion.
Thursday, Sep 3, 1998 7:00 PM UTCThe 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 UTCThe 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 UTCIf 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 UTCThree 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 UTCA 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 UTCTed 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 UTCThis holiday season, make time for getting sick.
Tuesday, Dec 16, 1997 8:00 PM UTCPage 1 of 2 in Kate Moses