I read your column almost every day and have often wondered why you never mention Families Anonymous when responding to a family member or friend of someone is has an addiction issue. This ...

Tayari Jones begins her superb new novel "Kin" with the harrowing start to life for two girls born in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in the 1940s. Vernice is six months old when her parents die in a burst of ...

The debate on whether nature or nurture shapes a person fuels Samantha Jayne Allen’s third tightly coiled novel about Texas private investigator Annie McIntyre. As indicated in its title and plot ...

When a character refers to the dual narrators of “Kin” as “crib sisters,” he’s immediately informed that the correct term is “cradle,” not “crib.” There’s a reason for that distinction, I think.