Meredith Broussard is the only member of her family who has not yet joined Facebook.

At every holiday gathering this year, our traditional family conversations ("How was the traffic? Which way did you go? 95? Did you get slowed down in the construction?") were replaced by a new interaction that...

In her December 8 New York Times article, "Researchers Put a Microscope on Food Allergies," Karen Ann Cullotta cites a statistic commonly used in articles about food allergies: "Up to 200 deaths each year are attributed to the most severe reaction, food-induced anaphylaxis," she writes. A similar statistic appears...

Holly Peterson's The Manny deserves to be the runaway bestseller of the summer. The book has everything you want in a beach read: rich bitchy Manhattanites, fashion tips, intrigue, unrequited passion, a bit of smut, and all the standard conventions of the mommy lit genre. The plot follows a...