I know I should say those sordid hours were a waste of time. Instead, they were the happiest days of my life

Biden’s relationship with his father contrasts with perhaps every president in the last four decades

My father raped me, and my mom didn't leave. It took years to find the power to forgive

"Donnie is a deeply unintelligent person. I've been asked this -- who's the stupidest one and it's him"

"I think Dad's been murdered," my brother told me. Every bit of my body began to shake

One author’s exploration of growing pains, adulthood and homesickness

They live in the common imagination, dramatizing America's most unresolved notions of what it means to be good, true and beautiful -- and evil, false and ugly.

In my summer of minding other people’s children, I carefully studied their lives, which were nothing like my own

Robert Oxnam has suffered with multiple personality disorder for much of his adult life. Now his three personalities -- he once had 11 -- have written a strange and fascinating book.

Our last Christmas matinee as a family was the perfect final movie with my dad — the one that launched his career

Sexy teenagers take on slow-moving ghost cars in a gruesome, sentimental breakthrough for Filipino cinema

Mike Figgis' star-packed project on the Hollywoodization of the world is either brilliant or a mess. Regardless, he's one of the signature filmmakers of our era.

I had a quiet suburban adolescence until Dad was busted on federal obscenity charges for distributing "Deep Throat"

After Dad had gender reassignment surgery, he promised he'd be the same person. Then why do I miss him so much?

I was born in Manhattan in the Syrian diaspora to an Arab father and a white mother, an unruly thread come loose