My husband and I separated the year my daughter turned 13. She was deliciously wise and fun, but I knew I couldn't slip into "us girls." She needed a mother.

Deborah Cardona's books tell stories of gangs, prison and redemption usually ignored by mainstream lit

Yes, you really are addicted to love

Salon talks to the acclaimed crime novelist about true crime, newspapers and her new book "Lady in the Lake"

As controversy erupts over Jeanine Cummins' Oprah Book Club novel, a review of my own novel demands my attention

Salon spoke to the comedian and her sister Lacey Lamar, who co-wrote "You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey"

"American Wife" author Curtis Sittenfeld on her first lady obsession, dirty bits with George W., and whether we're responsible for the behavior of our loved ones.

This summer, Hostin invites you to "read a wonderful beach read and escape" in places that you didn't know existed

A powerful new YA writer and a social justice maverick discuss the current reality and provide tools of empowerment

Paul Schrader's "Patty Hearst" tells the story Americans didn't want to hear.

"Riding in Cars With Boys," the uplifting memoir of a teenage mom done good, is twisted into a smarmy fable designed to promote abstinence-only sex education.

Has any of this gone the way Trump's eldest daughter imagined it would? We imagine her reaction to the week's news

The former child star talks Brittany Murphy, her quarter-life crisis and the sacrifices made for poetic legitimacy

"White writers aren't constantly asked about their whiteness; men aren't usually asked about their maleness"

"I was critically aware of my own white male gaze," Timothy Greenfield-Sanders tells Salon