A. M. Homes is the author of the short story collection The Safety of Objects, the artists' book Appendix A, and the novels In a Country of Mothers, Jack and the controversial tale of pedophilia, The End of Alice. Her work has been translated into eight languages and published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb, Blind Spot and Story, and teaches in the writing programs at both Columbia and The New School. Read an excerpt from The End of Alice James R. Kincaid has been writing for the last decade on how our culture encourages the telling of "self-righteous and self-serving horror stories about children's bodies and those 'others' who lust after them." Child-Loving (1992) and Erotic Innocence (1998) take on, in turn, the cultural/historical roots and the current manifestations of our tendency to "eroticize children and then pretend it was the monsters who did it." He is Aerol Arnold Professor at The University of Southern California. Read an excerpt from Erotic Innocence Judith Levine is the author of the forthcoming Not Harmful to Minors: How We Hurt Our Children by Protecting Them from Sex (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) and My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender (Doubleday, 1992). She has written about sex, gender, culture and politics for many national publications and is a founder of the National Writers Union and the pro-sex feminist agitprop troupe, No More Nice Girls. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Hardwick, Vermont. Read an excerpt from the forthcoming Not Harmful to Minors Micheal Medved is the host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show and former chief film critic for the New York Post. He served for twelve years as co-host of the PBS weekly movie review show, "Sneak Preview." He is the author of eight non-fiction books, including What Really Happened to the Class of '65 (with David Wallechinsky), The Shadow Presidents, Hospital and Hollywood vs. America. His columns on media and society have been published in hundreds of periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times of London and USA Today. He co-authored his latest book, Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence, with his wife: psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Diane Medved. They live in Seattle with their three young children. Read an excerpt from Saving Childhood A finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Criticism, screenwriter Stephen Schiff first established his reputation as a film critic. But he became better known for his work at the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer of cultural profiles, essays and criticism since 1992, and at Vanity Fair, where he was Critic-at-Large from 1983 to 1992. He was also the film critic of National Public Radio's Fresh Air for nine years until 1996. His first screenplay, Lolita, an adaptation of the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (the screenplay is now available from Applause Books), was filmed by director Adrian Lyne and stars Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and the then 14-year-old Dominique Swain. After a year of difficulty finding US distribution, Lolita was finally released in America on Showtime this August, and it will open in theaters nationwide beginning September 25. Schiff's film True Crime, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, will be released in December, and his film The Deep End of the Ocean, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, will be released in 1999. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter. Read an excerpt from Lolita: The Book of the Film Celine Texier-Rose is the 17-year-old daughter of novelist Joel Rose and author Catherine Texier, whose new "erotically charged" memoir Breakup chronicles the final year of her and Rose's tempestuous 18-year marriage. Texier-Rose is a senior in high school at the United Nations International school in New York and plans on aggressively pursuing a career in the dramatic arts. Read an excerpt from Breakup Author, feminist and social critic Naomi Wolf has written numerous essays featured in the New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, Washington Post, and New York Times, among others. Since 1997 she has written a monthly column for George magazine on social and political trends. Her books include The Beauty Myth (1992), Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century (1993) and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (1997), which has just been released in paperback. And Wolf recently became the President of the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Institute dedicated to fostering ethical leadership for the 21st century with a special focus on the professional development of young women. She lives in New York with her husband and their daughter. Read an excerpt from Promiscuities back