“I didn’t know anything about having cancer,” Anne Boyer writes in her challenging new book The Undying: A…
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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…
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…
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From GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU HATE by Rebecca Fishbein, published by William Morrow. Copyright © 2019…
If you only know two sentences from Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, they are these: “My plan was to never get…
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 first shot in the feminist abortion wars was fired in 1969 in a New York City Health Department auditorium,…
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The story of Emily Doe is a familiar one. For a culture inundated with stories about sexual assault, the details of…
Oprah’s Book Club is back from a short hiatus I was fully unaware of ever taking place. Winfrey paid her BFF Gayle…
“Margaret Atwood’s new novel is being greeted as the long-awaited feminist dystopia, and I am afraid that for some…
“Marcel Marceau’s first wife divorced him in 1958,” Shawn Wen writes of the famous mime. “She said he would not…
Once again, as they have for several years running, women cleaned up at the Hugos, a premiere industry award for…
In Rachel Monroe’s book Savage Appetites, she describes something called a “crime funk.” It is when you might find…
Bella Thorne’s completely unedited book of poems, written in two weeks on a typewriter, The Life of a Wannabe Mogul:…