EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptIn South Korea, 'Lookism' Is 'Enforced With Open Discrimination'When she was posted to Seoul, journalist Elise Hu was bowled over by the beauty industry's dominance—and…ByElise HuPublishedMay 26, 2023Comments (26)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksElon Musk Got a Suspicious Glow-Up in His Biography Cover ArtHopefully, the book does more to dissuade readers of Musk's purported genius than this cover does.ByKady Ruth AshcraftPublishedMay 18, 2023Comments (21)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks‘The Guest’ Is a Masterful Train Wreck About a Scammer’s Week in the HamptonsThrilling and compassionate, Emma Cline's second novel is an early contender for beach-read of the summer.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedMay 11, 2023
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptAbortion Can Be an Act of Parenting“No amount of love and desire for the fetus will relieve its future suffering... So River has made an appointment,"…ByHannah MatthewsPublishedMay 2, 2023
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksNora Ephron’s Sister on Why ‘Heartburn’ Is Just As Searing 40 Years OnShe looked "around herself...at everybody’s lives, at everybody’s marriages, and had something to say about it,"…ByEmily LeibertPublishedMarch 28, 2023Comments (8)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksParis Hilton Isn’t Dumb—She Knows How to Write What Her Fans Want to ReadParis: A Memoir is an abysmal mix of telling and not showing, bad sentences, and open image cultivation from a…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedMarch 16, 2023Comments (40)
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptIn Ballet, Pain Really Is Beauty"I wanted bunions, blisters, bleeding toenails, and I envied the girls who bruised more easily," Alice Robb writes…ByAlice RobbPublishedMarch 2, 2023Comments (7)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksNew J.K. Rowling Podcast Is Just Pretending To Be InsightfulThe Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, brought to you by Bari Weiss' the Free Press, is dead on arrival.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedFebruary 22, 2023Comments (101)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksThe Best Celebrity Memoirs of the YearJenette McCurdy, Selma Blair, Colton Haynes, and Constance Wu are among the celebs whose words made noise in 2022.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedDecember 19, 2022Comments (1)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksThis YA Novel About a Possibly Demonic Cat Is Recommended Halloween ReadingThe Witches of Worm, now a half-century old, is an unsung creepfest with uncommon compassion for its lonely tween…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedOctober 26, 2022Comments (2)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks'The Future Is Disabled' Envisions a World Where Disabled People Aren't a Begrudging Afterthought“I refuse to participate in our own erasure,” queer disabled author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha tells Jezebel…ByRodlyn-mae BantingPublishedOctober 4, 2022Comments (2)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksOur Public Health System Created a 'Viral Underclass'Journalist Steven Thrasher argues that viruses—like HIV and covid—can teach us how to approach care in a way that…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedAugust 10, 2022
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksJennette McCurdy Details Abuse From Her Former Boss in New MemoirIn an excerpt from her upcoming book, the actor writes about the behavior of a man she dubbed "The Creator."ByRodlyn-mae BantingPublishedAugust 5, 2022Comments (29)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksThe True Scammer Behind the Fake Diary 'Go Ask Alice' Duped Millions of KidsUnmask Alice lifts the veil on author Beatrice Sparks, who fabricated the lives of young adults to moralize about…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedJuly 26, 2022Comments (61)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksOttessa Moshfegh's 'Lapvona' Is the Feel-Bad Hit of the SummerThe response to the brazenly unpleasant Lapvona is as divisive as it gets for a contemporary book. This is a good,…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedJuly 15, 2022Comments (6)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksRuth Wilson Gilmore Says Freedom Is a Physical Place—But Can We Find It?Everything seems awful right now. But the author of Abolition Geography insists that "without optimism," there’s "no…ByKylie CheungPublishedJune 21, 2022
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks'Under the Skin' Charts the Steep Toll Racism Takes on the Black Body“We’re the canaries in the coal mine as Black people,” said Linda Villarosa, whose reporting first put Black…ByGabrielle BruneyPublishedJune 16, 2022
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks‘Bitch’ Busts the Stereotype of Female Animals as Docile, Maternal CreaturesFrom baboon abortions to same-sex avian couples, zoologist Lucy Cooke's book dives into the fascinatingly diverse…ByGabrielle BruneyPublishedJune 15, 2022Comments (15)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksFire Island Is Both a Paradise and a ContradictionJack Parlett's irresistable new book and the Fire Island movie lay bare the complexities of this queer summer haven.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedJune 14, 2022Comments (4)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksLeVar Burton's Opinion on Book Banning Is the Only One That Matters"It's bullshit," declared the founding father of reading out loud.ByAudra HeinrichsPublishedJune 10, 2022Comments (15)