Does every woman have the right to bear a child, no matter what her age? Apparently so, as the existence of a 63-year-old pregnant woman in the U.K., due to deliver in two months with the help of a rumored US $93,000 in fertility treatments, implies. It's unprecedented for me...

With Dana Reeve's death last week, we mourned the passing of another mother taken too soon. The rash of obituaries that followed her death emphasized her emotional strength, her indomitable spirit, and her courage in the face of adversity. But there was a line in each one that stopped my...

Frey's 5% Rule

Call me uninformed, but I thought we'd resolved this whole "What is nonfiction?" debate a long time ago. I thought we'd covered it with Lorenzo Carcaterra and Sleepers in 1995, and again with Stephen Glass and Harper's and The New Republic in 1998, and finally with Lauren...