Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller 'Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina-which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen's cheery gynecologist, nor her inte...

The author of Asa, as I Knew Him offers a compelling and poignant memoir of her two years as a teenager in a psychiatric hospital, sharing vivid portraits of her fellow patients, their keepers, and her experiences during treatment. Re...

"It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . ."  London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, a precocious young girl growing up in 1950s Cambridge, would ra...

Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.  But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone 'study,' the culture he e...