Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was in her time--and is perhaps even now--the most famous dancer in the world. From her early classical training at St. Petersburg's Imperial Ballet School, Pavlova carried on incessant, globe-covering tours, everywhere making...

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents Them, you're performing an act of distancing. And that if you dedicate that book "To Them with love and longing,"...