Cathleen Medwick reviews My Father's Tears by John Updike, a collection of sparkling short stories addressing attachment and loss.

Shepherding fragile elders can leave a person lost and overwhelmed. Martha Beck offers a path back toward sanity.

Cathleen Medwick reviews The Widows of Eastwick, a mischievous updating of Updike's 1984 book, The Witches of Eastwick.

Three extraordinary actresses, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, get together with Oprah for a revelatory conversation about making movies, children, getting older, their "raging insecurity," and their transcendent film, The Hours.

Academy Award-winning documentarian Michael Moore shares his favorite books to read in the O, The Oprah Magazine's Bookshelf, May2003 issue.