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Hanya Yanagihara Is Eccentric and Self-Indulgent. So What?

Perhaps it’s time to embrace our most unhinged habits in the service of art.

Becca Schuh

1/12/22 1:42PM

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Xochitl Gonzalez's Debut Novel Is a Pivotal Examination of Puerto Ricanness

For Puerto Rican and Boricua readers, Gonzalez and her characters breathe new life into the age-old adage Pa’lante.…

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bell hooks, Renowned Author and Feminist Scholar, Dead At 69

hooks' unflinching critiques of race, gender, class, and pop culture leave behind an insurmountable legacy.

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You Don't Have to Like Katie Couric

The "perky" anchor reckons with reality in her new memoir.

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Books to Scratch that Seasonal Practical Magic Itch

What to read when you want witchy vibes for Halloween, from Erin Sterling, author of The Ex Hex

Kelly Faircloth

10/25/21 9:30AM

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The High Costs of Dirt-Cheap Fast Fashion

It is humans who cut the fabric, and humans who work tirelessly at sewing machines. And humans can only work so fast.

Aja Barber

10/08/21 9:30AM

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The Powerful Civil Rights Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer

She joined the movement at 44 and helped secure the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Joyzel Acevedo

9/30/21 2:30PM

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The Larger than Life Legend of the Regal Blueswoman

People who say Bessie Smith would have said, “I went to see the Empress,” and everybody would have known who they…

Jackie Kay

9/30/21 10:00AM

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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

9/24/21 9:35AM

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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

9/23/21 12:05PM

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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…

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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

Kelly Faircloth

8/05/21 2:15PM

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