An Author's Notebook

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a story about an Arab princess who escaped her home country by driving over the border to a new life....

Minutes before the dawn of the new year, I found myself locked in a dispute over gender. As our wineglasses glittered in the dying candlelig...

"I didn't know ladies could smoke!" my young son once exclaimed  sotto voce after watching a (female) friend light up in the...