Books

One of my favorite things to do at the moment is to listen to celebrities read their memoirs. This would be a pricey…

“Everyone I know is trying to sleep less,” says the narrator of Jenny Offill’s new book Weather. “Insomnia as a…

For the last decade or so, it has become increasingly common for contestants of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to…

In the opening chapters of Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical, 15-year-old Francisca has just moved from…

An easily foreseen result of the last few weeks is that people stuck at home are reading more books. Or, at the very…

In 1999, Britney Spears appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in a black bra and polka-dot panties, clutching a…

On the first page of Jessica Simpson’s 400-page memoir Open Book, she’s sitting in the passenger seat of a car, one…

The second movie proved to be the last straw for Willa Cather. Warner Bros. had first adapted her novel A Lost Lady i…

“I didn’t know anything about having cancer,” Anne Boyer writes in her challenging new book The Undying: A…

Yesterday, New York Times bestselling authors Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult were among those to tweet outsized…

Many Whitney Houston fans never thought this day would come. Robyn Crawford, the singer’s friend, assistant, and…

“When you consider the plenitude of any word’s inheritance you might think all words are untranslatable,” writes…

When Ronald Reagan and his advisors wanted to undermine the very institution of social programs, he turned to a news…

The details presented in Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill are familiar by now: Harvey Weinstein is a powerful…

Kristin Doute of Vanderpump Rules, who just last month broke things off with her sentient beard of a boyfriend Brian…

When the MeToo movement began, many women I know were unsurprised at the deluge of stories that seemed to confirm…

A few years ago, when I was shopping my now-shelved first novel, an industry insider told me to put the word “girls”…

The day Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara wrote her first song, Tegan was sick, and so Sara wore her twin sister’s…

According to one of my favorite consistently hyperbolic celebrity tabloids, Radar Online, Lori Loughlin is “pitching…

The story of Emily Doe is a familiar one. For a culture inundated with stories about sexual assault, the details of…