Deborah H. Sussman

Jewish tradition holds that you don’t have a baby shower until after the baby is born. So when my new neighbors proposed a baby shower before my daughter’s birth, I paused.

“This is an opportunity to be with people who appreciate discovering great new books and supporting new writers."

Long after the ASU Art Museum’s groundbreaking “New American City: Artists Look Forward” show came down in 2007, there was a vestige of painter Carrie Marill in the building, just above one of the baseboards in the women’s room — a bright little fragment of a Phoenix landscape, unobtrusive but...

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. The Christmas after I graduated from college, I was living, if you can call...

Daniel Levitin was in his 30s when he went back to college and got a degree in cognitive psychology, launching the career that has made him a best-selling author. His first book, This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession (2006), spent more than a year on The...