Taffy Brodesser-Akner

This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age

The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.