Kathryn Harrison

  • "Envy" by Kathryn Harrison

    From the author of "The Kiss," a gripping, unsettling story about a middle-aged psychoanalyst's emotional and sexual adventures.
  • Ball and chain

    In the new anthology "Committed," male writers from Jay McInerney to Colin Harrison explain their decision to finally settle down. Salon asked their partners for the other side of the story.
  • Supplicant

    My mother gave me up before either of us knew the value of a mother. After her death, I no longer confuse longing with love.
  • "The Binding Chair" by Kathryn Harrison

    Is the author's latest abused-woman fantasy -- this one set in China and France in the early decades of the 20th century -- revelatory or pornographic?
  • Letters to the Editor

    As bad as Horowitz thinks the left is, the extreme right is worse! Plus: Deciding who can say the N-word; is commerce saving Nepal or ruining it?
  • Tom and Nicole and Colin and Kathryn

    "Eyes Wide Shut" provokes literary couple Colin and Kathryn Harrison to spar over marriage, passion, jealousy and the lure of dangerous sex in a vanilla world.
  • The worst books of 1997

    Salon Magazine's book critics survey the worst and most overrated books of 1997
  • The year in books

    Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
  • Outing your mom

    Can you survive an insane mother with your own sanity intact? The latest in a spate of mad mom memoirs, Jacki Lyden's "Daughter of the Queen of Sheba" proves you can.
  • Mary Karr

    Salon magazine: An interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club about memoirs, Texas, childhood, Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss, child abuse, writing, literature, autobiography. By Dwight Garner

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