"Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold." — Los Angeles Times Book Review It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bott...

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as 'liquid armor,' a way to protect themselves agai...

In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, "What do women want?" and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining...