Articles by Diana Wagman

On the front page of Thursday’s Los Angeles Times was a story about John McCain. Read more

What Happened to Anna K. A Novel Irina Reyn Touchstone: 244 pp., $24 THE JACKET flap on my college copy of “Anna Karenina” calls it “a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul.” Read more

Real World A Novel Natsuo Kirino Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel Alfred A. Knopf: 214 pp., $23.95 ATEENAGER murders his mother and cannot articulate why. Read more

Pretty Is What Changes Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny Jessica Queller Spiegel & Grau: 248 pp., $24.95 Ihad no choice. Read more

DO not judge this book by its cover. Read more

Ahh, cancer. Read more

IN Matt Marinovich’s debut novel, “Strange Skies” (HarperPerennial: 226 pp., $13.95 paper), the protagonist, Paul, pretends to have cancer to avoid conceiving a child with his wife of four years. Read more

In November 1979, I signed on as crew on a sailboat bound for Bermuda from Newport, R.I. Five days after setting sail, we were rescued by the Coast Guard 300 nautical miles due east. Read more

WAY, way back in the early ’60s, Andy Warhol inflamed the art world with his Campbell’s soup cans. Read more