Our Favorite Books of the YearÂ
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…
The Dead Girl Killed the Rom-Com
In Alice Bolin’s book Dead Girls, she describes going to a karaoke bar by herself, soon after moving to Los Angeles.…
'Women's Identity Is Composed of Myths': Author Samantha Hunt on Mermaids and the Reissue of The SeasÂ
Nearly a decade before Samantha Hunt published her haunting novel Mr. Splitfoot and years before The Invention of…
For Author Lauren Groff, Florida Is 'an Eden of Terrible Things'
The sky was overcast and gray when I met Lauren Groff for lunch in her adopted hometown of Gainesville, Florida with…
Sheila Heti's Motherhood Isn't Really About Motherhood
The unnamed narrator of Sheila Heti’s new contemplative new novel Motherhood is ambivalent about having children. She…
How We Eclipse Women's Literary Brilliance With 'Scandal'
The narrative that important, authoritative female novelists ultimately owe their brilliance to men refuses to die as…
An Appreciation of Danielle Steel's Writing Desk
As a rule of thumb, studies in which writers, even famous and successful ones, work are usually ramshackle—gross,…
A Conversation with Alissa Nutting on Intimacy, Florida, and DolphinsÂ
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…
Open Thread: Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry PotterÂ
If, today, you encountered social media, a periodical, or—in any likelihood—another person, you undoubtedly learned,…
Paula Hawkins Talks 'Troublesome Women,' 'Good Men,' and Her New Book, Into the Water
Paula Hawkins’s new page-turner, Into the Water, is set is in Beckford, a small tourist town in northern England. The…
Sonoya Mizuno Joins Constance Wu in Movie Adaptation Of Crazy Rich Asians
Japanese actress Sonoya Mizuno is joining Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, and Gemma Chan in the film Crazy Rich Asians, an…
A Conversation with Elif Batuman on Freshman Awkwardness, Email, and Her Novel The Idiot
Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, is a novel about language. Or, more specifically, it’s about language’s…
Katie Kitamura Talks Infidelity, Role Playing, and Grief in Her New Novel A SeparationÂ
The narrator of Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation has a secret. After five years of marriage, the unnamed narrator is…
Eva Green, Gemma Arterton Star As Titular Characters in Vita and VirginiaÂ
You may recall that last summer, we celebrated some glorious news: the imminent production of a film chronicling the…
The Natural Way of Things Is a Prescient Feminist Horror Novel You Need to ReadÂ
Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things opens in a prison. Ten women have been dragged from their homes, off the…
Zadie Smith's Swing Time Is a Compelling Portrait of Race and Female FriendshipÂ
If ever a novel captured the frenzied feeling of girlhood, with all of its conscious choreography and missteps and pure…
George R. R. Martin Wants Westeros to Remain Fiction, Campaigns for Clinton
Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin, perhaps unnerved by the similarities between Donald Trump and the barbaric…
Jennifer Lawrence to Portray Tragic Jazz Age Beauty Zelda Fitzgerald
Our chill, astronomically famous BFF Jennifer Lawrence has been cast to star in Zelda, a film about tragic writer and…
Elena Ferrante Translator Ann Goldstein Condemns Outing Of Author
Last week the literary world read with slacked jaws Claudio Gatti’s brutish article in the New York Review of Books outi…
Huh: In 1875, Someone Published a Novel With Rivals 'Trump' And 'Clinton'
Today in droll coincidences: nearly 150 years ago, an anonymous author published The Odd Trump, a novel whose…