In Mary H.K. Choi’s debut novel, Emergency Contact, most of the conversations between Penny, the novel’s protagonist, and Sam, her friend/love interest/soul mate, take place via texts. It’s a premise that in lesser hands could flop, but Choi’s writing sparkles, gleams, and glistens. Emergency Contact is a true…

When political commentator Sally Kohn sent Aminatou Sow, host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, a passage from her forthcoming book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity in which she is quoted, Sow was confused.

Our Bodies, Ourselves, the revolutionary feminist health book first published in the 1970s, will cease publishing, NPR reports.

To mark the publication of their review of Meg Wolitzer’s much-hyped latest novel, The Female Persuasion, the editor of the New York Times Book Review tweeted a link to the piece, which was by Lena Dunham, and the following words: “Lena Dunham. Meg Wolitzer. Our work here is done.” Why exactly would the pairing of…

“Some are born Janeites, some achieve Janeism, and some have Janeism thrust upon them,” Ted Scheinman writes in his charming new book, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. For Scheinman, his temporary entry into Austen fandom was a bit of all three, done “half willingly and half accidentally.”

The late photographer Bill Cunningham, who was documenting the eclectic style of New Yorkers long before “street style” photography was a career for trendy bloggers, left behind a memoir right before he died in 2016.

We could all use a respite from the barrage of gaslighting, grifting, doltishness, and despair that has come to signify the past year in Trumplandia. The question is can we survive until November, when a new memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama will hit bookstores.

Penguin is opening up a perfect new book store: one that’s entirely stocked with titles written by women.

Of all the longstanding, beloved subgenres of romance novel, among my personal favorites and also perhaps the most specific is the Regency, set around the same time as Jane Austen. Like Austen, the setting has been occupied by everyone from feminists to conservative evangelicals. Author Cat Sebastian uses the setting…

There are few things more perennially relevant than a book about misogyny, but Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny is particularly resonant in the era of #MeToo, Donald Trump, and the often contentious narratives that flow from both. A philosophy professor at Cornell University, Manne uses the tools of her…

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, a young white mother near Wilmington, North Carolina, received the news with resolve to circumvent the ruling, using “nerve and plenty of hell in the personality.” Mrs. Hugh Bell organized the Pender County Association for the…

While the flashy performances and biggest categories won’t start for another two hours, the 60th Annual Grammy Awards has already begun in New York City, and one prestigious winner happens to be Carrie Fisher, who dunked on Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo, Bruce Springsteen, and Shelly Peiken in…

Lupita Nyong’o is working on a children’s book about a Kenyan girl’s difficulty accepting her dark skin.

While Ronan Farrow is landing effusive cover stories as if he were the only person to investigate Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long predatory behavior, the reporters who actually broke the story first just landed an international book deal.

New York State has launched a new “program” that would severely limit one of the few earthly pleasures permitted to prisoners during their time behind bars: Books.

Lindy West—author, New York Times columnist, former Jezebel staffer and crafter of excellent headlines—is releasing two new books, one in 2018, and we could not be more psyched.

History has nearly forgotten Lucy Parsons (c. 1853-1942), the radical anarchist and orator who enthused working-class audiences for decades with her rhetoric of resistance and violence. She struck fear into the hearts of the Chicago police and businessmen, agitating for workers to seize their rights by whatever means…

By now you have either read or heard a friends of yours talk at great length about “Cat Person,” the great, viral New Yorker story about a college student who has a disgusting (but terrifyingly ordinary) sexual episode with an entitled misogynist. If you missed the story, perhaps you saw a few of the truly unnecessary …

In November, the actor Jenifer Lewis published her memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood, and it is a title she earned. Since the 1970s and ’80s, she has been dominating Broadway and movies with her effervescent spirit and voice, starring in a slew of memorable, maternal roles, including The Fresh Prince’s Aunt Helen…