The book is full of questions both asked and implied: Where is the boundary between learning about something and becoming it? Where is the line between “unbelievable” and believed? And, as a storyteller, what does it mean to seek – and find – beauty in a reality that’s also so full of pain?

At some point this past August, Missoula County’s daily air quality updates — peppered with chatty jokes about the apocalyptic sky outside our windows and wry recommendations to avoid outdoor...

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In my imagination, this is the part when I say something sharp enough to remind him that this is not his dance space. In real life, during those three seconds...

My people survived pogroms, the Holocaust, Stalin, institutional anti-Semitism — that’s what I’m holding on to.

"The Gutsy Girl" is part memoir, part instruction manual, part unbelievable true adventure tale. It's also a New York Times bestseller, which gives a hint about how ready we all...

I am not good at being bad at things. It’s part of why I’m here: I’m thinking of this blow to my ego as salutary, like a bruising and astringent...