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The Ugly Necklace That Helped Bring Down Marie Antoinette

The backstory on the scandal that helped sink the French monarchy, in this excerpt from In the Shadow of the Empress

Nancy Goldstone

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Cassandra Peterson on Coming Up with Elvira, Coming Clean in Her Book, and Coming Out

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark is a doozy of a tell-all, in which Peterson bares more…

Rich Juzwiak

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Lauren Groff's Prescription for the Last Days of Summer: Short Stories

The author of Fates and Furies and Matrix recommends Clare Sestanovich and Edwidge Danticat

Kelly Faircloth

9/01/21 9:30AM

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The Long Swoon of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How an influential, vital artist was reduced to a passive pile of ruffles in the cultural consciousness

Fiona Sampson

8/26/21 10:15AM

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Meet the Hell's Belles, the Victorian Girl Gang That Will Wreck a Man Who Won’t Take a No

Sarah MacLean launches her latest series with the scandalous Sesily Talbot in Bombshell

Sarah MacLean

8/24/21 12:45PM

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To Georgia Nicolson and All The Normie Girls of YA

Before YA was overtaken by vampires and dystopias, Louise Rennison's heroine navigated typical adolescence

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Writer Rafia Zakaria Takes on Sexual Liberation, Capitalism, and White Feminism

Jezebel chats with the author of your new favorite read, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Shannon Melero

8/18/21 12:00PM

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How Two Enemies Became Lovers Through the Power of Cake

"With those wickedly intelligent eyes and strong forearms, he was a visual treat, if you fancied your men large and…

Lucy Parker

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In All In, Tennis Icon Billie Jean King Grapples With Pressure, Privilege, and Power

In her new memoir, the tennis star writes candidly about abortion, feminism, and equal pay

Shannon Melero

8/17/21 9:00AM

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The Best Fantasy Books for the Waning Days of Summer

Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, recommends Mexican Gothic and more

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The Tulsa Race Massacre, as Told by the Great-Granddaughter of a Survivor

Anneliese M. Bruner speaks about the atrocities her great-grandmother, journalist Mary E. Jones Parrish, experienced…

Joyzel Acevedo

8/11/21 3:10PM

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The Authors of The View Was Exhausting Pick 8 Sweltering Reads for Summer

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta recommend Toni Morrison, Mary McCarthy, and The Count of Monte Cristo

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Mena Suvari on Surviving Hollywood: The Jezebel Interview

In an interview, the actor opens up about her new MeToo-inspired memoir, The Great Peace, and the abuse she writes…

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Don't Call Them "Riots," Says Historian Elizabeth Hinton—They're Black Rebellions

In her new book "America on Fire," Hinton chronicles decades of Black protest, from 1960s Harlem all the way to…

Joyzel Acevedo

7/22/21 4:35PM

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What Katie Kitamura Thinks You Should Read Right Now

The author of Intimacies recommends Alexandra Kleeman, Elena Ferrante, and Tove Ditlevsen

Kelly Faircloth

7/22/21 12:00PM

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8 Best Science & Tech Books for Summer, As Recommended by Flash Forward's Rose Eveleth

Rose Eveleth recommends books by Emma Maris, Charlie Jane Anders, and Octavia E. Butler

Kelly Faircloth

7/14/21 1:45PM

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Before Serums, Women Had Radium

Made with “ACTUAL RADIUM not ‘Radio-Active Water’”!

Lucy Jane Santos

7/09/21 9:30AM

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11 Summer Reading Recommendations from Jezebel Staff

Jezebel recommends Claire Vaye Watkins, Martha Wells, Kate Clayborn, and more

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7/06/21 9:30AM

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8 Best Summer Reads, By Seven Days in June Author Tia Williams

Williams recommends Raven Leilani, Talia Hibbert, and more

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Unearthed Documents Say John Locke Was Definitely a College Fuccboi

Best frenemy describes the famous philosopher as "vain, lazy, and pompous," so the whole gamut

Emily Alford

6/24/21 6:45PM

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