novels

Last year, writer Akwaeke Emezi became the first non-binary author nominated for the U.K.’s esteemed Women’s Prize…

The picture of Innocence has a conspicuous face. She is round-cheeked with youth, and guilelessly alert, her limpid…

An easily foreseen result of the last few weeks is that people stuck at home are reading more books. Or, at the very…

The second movie proved to be the last straw for Willa Cather. Warner Bros. had first adapted her novel A Lost Lady i…

Film is a trickster’s medium, an illusion of an illusion. Though it purports to capture objective fact—as if holding…

When the MeToo movement began, many women I know were unsurprised at the deluge of stories that seemed to confirm…

“Margaret Atwood’s new novel is being greeted as the long-awaited feminist dystopia, and I am afraid that for some…

Pity the protagonists of old-fashioned novels—just about everything seems to happen to them. They have an uncanny…

Siri Hustvedt’s seventh novel, Memories of the Future, contains several references to Baby Face, a 1933 film…

The forward to Miriam Toews’s eighth novel, Women Talking, begins with a punch of horrific reality: “Between 2005…

Ottessa Moshfegh received more acclaim and attention than ever in 2018. It was also, she says, the most painful year…

Here are the books that were most loved by Jezebel staffers this year. This isn’t a list per se—there is no order or…

In Alice Bolin’s book Dead Girls, she describes going to a karaoke bar by herself, soon after moving to Los Angeles.…

Nearly a decade before Samantha Hunt published her haunting novel Mr. Splitfoot and years before The Invention of…

The sky was overcast and gray when I met Lauren Groff for lunch in her adopted hometown of Gainesville, Florida with…

The unnamed narrator of Sheila Heti’s new contemplative new novel Motherhood is ambivalent about having children.…

The narrative that important, authoritative female novelists ultimately owe their brilliance to men refuses to die…

As a rule of thumb, studies in which writers, even famous and successful ones, work are usually ramshackle—gross,…

Alissa Nutting’s wildly comedic Made for Love is a novel about many fetishes. It’s a book of a 76-year-old father’s…

If, today, you encountered social media, a periodical, or—in any likelihood—another person, you undoubtedly learned,…