Elizabeth Judd reviews 'My Heart Laid Bare' by Joyce Carol Oates

The Playboy heiress fights for women's rights but not against male fantasy. How does this make her an enemy?

When politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library.

A tryst on "Big Brother" shocked viewers -- but as Juan Pablo reminded us, reality-TV sex is par for the course

The campaign to get LGBTQ-friendly books and authors of color off the shelves isn't "grassroots" or spontaneous

In which a longtime holdout finally gives the Brit-poppers, back from a 12-year hiatus, the fair shake they earned

Multimedia performance artist Laurie Anderson on Melville's Bible, the American art of the jump cut and why "Moby-Dick" still matters.

From the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars," a tale of a traumatized girl who meets the Virgin Mary in the woods -- and then meets a man who says he's the Devil.

I know there's nothing rational about religious faith, and American Christianity is a mess. But I still believe

Alienation, the struggle for a decent life, really bad weather -- the universal themes of this vast nation's literature make us all feel Russian at one point or another.

Two researches explain how DNA mutations can sustain cancer, and how this discovery can aid treatment

Obama's contraception compromise is a rare practical solution to America's perennial church-state tensions