Meredith Maran

If there’s one piece of good news to emerge from Year One of the Trumpocalypse, it’s this: The brutish, often brutal rule of men is being exposed for what it...

What, one might reasonably ask, are “painful beaches”? And why are they in the subtitle of the new memoir by John Hodgman, the actor/comedian/author who brought us some of the...

"Every story has been told," Stanley Kubrick said. "Every scene has been shot. It's our job to do it one better." The story of "Watch Me Disappear," the third novel...

In 1923, in "The Prophet," Khalil Gibran published a poem titled "On Children," whose message is summarized in this refrain: Your children are not your children. They are the sons...

There's much to love about Kim Addonizio's poetry, short stories, novels, writing guides and essays. And many readers love them, despite — or, maybe, thanks to — Addonizio's seeming disinterest...

"The Course of Love" is no ordinary novel, and no wonder. Its author is no ordinary guy. Now 46, Zurich-born Alain de Botton was raised speaking German and French; he...

Tracy McMillan: Wow. What hasn't she done? In her 51 years she's been a TV writer on the NBC Nightly News and on the series "The United States of Tara"...