Kathryn Stockett never intended to write a best-selling novel. In fact, when she started writing her debut novel, The Help, she didn’t think anyone would ever read it.
‘Help’ Author Kathryn Stockett on Writing Debut Novel
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How Marijuana Got Mainstreamed
I’ve always been passionate about food,” says Jenelise Robinson.
Arlington’s Burial Mix-Ups: Will the Army Fix the Problem?
On a recent, unusually warm late-winter day, a young woman sat quietly at the foot of a white headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, among a cluster of graves of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The woman, maybe 25 years old, sat in the grass, hugging the headstone.
Snyder v. Phelps: A Supreme Court Free-Speech Showdown
“Is this a joke?” a befuddled young woman asked as she stood outside the Supreme Court on the morning of Oct. 6.
TIME Cover Depicts the Disturbing Plight of Afghan Women
Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws
10 Questions for Dan Savage
How did you come up with the idea for It Gets Better? Last summer I was reading about teen suicides, speaking at colleges and thinking that what I should be doing is going to high schools.
Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others
Do you think you’re more likely to look at an online ad if it contains 1> a picture, 2> an animation, or 3> just text? The answer: just text.
German man on trial for stabbing Muslim woman
A German man accused of stabbing to death a pregnant Muslim woman in a Dresden courtroom goes on trial Monday — in the same court and amid tight security.
Review: ‘Amelia’ doesn’t fly
“Amelia” is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn’t trust a viewer’s independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen. The mystery we ought to be paying attention to is: What really happened on the legendary American aviator’s final, fatal flight in 1937 But the question audiences are left with is this: How could so tradition-busting a role model have resulted in so square, stiff, and earthbound a movie Why present such a modern woman in such a fusty format Dressed for the title role in a wardrobe of jumpsuits, leather jackets, scarves, and slinky evening wear dashing enough to stop air traffic, Hilary Swank’s Earhart doesn’t so much talk as make stump speeches — even when she’s at her own breakfast table.
Woman recants story of West Virginia abuse
A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story, her lawyer said Wednesday.