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Daddy’s Little Girl

Wendy D. Shalit

What went wrong with Alice Walker’s new book, her first novel in six years? By the Light of My Father’s Smile (Random House) should have been well-received by our...

A Tale of Three Pregnancies

Wendy D. Shalit

When Hollywood dispatches its most important people to enlighten us on a most important subject, one can only pray for a power failure. But we didn’t get one when,...