Sex, violence, passion and death come to a raging boil in Almodovar's paean to romantic kitsch.

The success of Terry McMillan has spawned a whole new breed of black, middle-class women novelists.

I used to ask myself what I could have done to save Eddie. Now I realize: I was asking the wrong person.

A dead woman pilot, unjustly accused

officers and ruined careers -- all brought to you by the

political correctness combat brigade.

For all its good intentions, J.M. Coetzee's new academic animal-rights novel won't save a single veal calf.

From a new edition of Ginzburg's brilliant "The Little Virtues," an essay on her family's exile under Fascist rule

Don't be scared!

Before I had children, I said to myself: "Better boys than girls. Boys are easy." But raising three young sons is wilder than I could ever have imagined.

Heche describes the "gift of trauma"; James Woods proposes terrorist decapitation; Gwyneth sinks her teeth into British choppers; Britney's glass: Available for the sipping!

I married a cop of easy virtue, posed nude in Hef's magazine, drank all night at Lucky Pierre's, and appeared in the worst movie ever made. It was Big and it was Easy, and now it's gone.

From crossing one's fingers to tipping, these behaviors should be curbed when traveling to certain countries

Opponents of reparations argue that we've talked enough about race. But look at the way the GOP talks about it

Moms arrested for going on job interviews, for letting kids play outside. It almost happened to me over a tantrum

Or vaccine thinking applied to all of American life

Searching for a father figure, I finally found a man I could trust. He lavished attention on me -- it just wasn't the right kind.