In Faith Van Zanten's immaculate house in a Venice mobile home park, there are some old framed photos of two girls so identical you wouldn't be able to tell them apart unless you knew that one had a ...

There are plenty of parenting books out there. Each touts its own tips and tricks, "secrets" to raising the most well-rounded, best-behaved children. What if we told you, there is no one secret?

Let me tell you the story of how Max Gladstone became one of my favorite writers, which is also the story of why you should all be buying his Craft Sequence books immediately. So I read the books — ...

I don’t know about you, but I could use more simplicity in my life. How convenient then that today happens to be National Simplicity Day. Whether it’s too much stuff, too much information, or too many ...

Mannu Bhandari is a fiction writer whose writings captivate you because of their transparent simplicity, not because of their dazzling brilliance. In her short stories, plays and novels, she does not ...