In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of her 1984 book The Second Shift, sociologist Arlie Hochschild was asked if we had…
Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work is an incredibly and almost profoundly boring book. Mercifully, for those of us who have…
In January 1977, I was riding north on the Pacific Coast Highway to interview Joan Didion at her home by the sea. I was…
Though Emma Donoghue is likely best known for Room, her 2010 best-selling novel turned film, she more commonly writes…
Saying there’s a new book about the Mitford sisters is a bit like sharing the breaking news that the sun rose again. Of…
While I was reading Khloé Kardashian’s book Strong Looks Better Naked in a Brooklyn café, the person sitting across…
The past month or so has seen the publication of two books from men who, a decade ago, created questionable blueprints…
In her 81 years on Earth, including a long former career as a journalist, Gloria Steinem has only written six books,…
The final tableau of To Kill A Mockingbird has always given me a sour feeling toward the book—it ends with the black…
A reminder: while Franny and Zooey is now considered quite the classic, it wasn't always looked at that way, and one…
There is no feeling quite like reading Bill Cosby's Love and Marriage in January 2015.
I excel at avoiding the ubiquitous—push notifications, Knausgaard; libertarians, pumpkin spice—and as a result I came…
Sara Marcus's Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution is a history of a group of young, punk…
Cordelia Fine's thorough (and funny!) Delusions of Gender punches a giant hole in the idea that women's brains are…
Rachel Shukert's new memoir Everything Is Going To Be Great does something unfortunately rare in women's writing:…
Chastened, Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about her year of celibacy, reveals a deep confusion about how to live and love…
The title Lonely tends to conjure up words like shy, sad, and withdrawn, so it's something of a surprise that Emily…
Are American kids overdiagnosed, overmedicated, overburdened with acronyms and diagnoses? In We've Got Issues, Judith…
Julie Klausner's I Don't Care About Your Band is the anti-Marry Him — a celebration of self-love in the face of…
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