Terry McMillan on the Sacrifices We Make for "Love."

Writer Reynolds Price. Though Price has written books of poetry, essays and translation, he has earned his widest recognition for his novels, which work in a southern tradition depicting small towns in the 40s and 50s. His Southern Gothic tales deal with families coming together then scattering after suicides, soured romances. His 1986 novel, Kate Vaiden, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, like Price's best fiction (A Long and Happy Life, Good Hearts), is told primarily from the point of view of a woman.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new album by pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson has a reputation for highlighting obscure works; this time Ohlsson performs a little-known work by Debussy, as well as one of Debussy's most famous pieces.

Language commentator Geoffrey Nunberg explains some of the reasons you shouldn't use a dictionary.