The 13 Best Romance Books to Read Right Now
I wasn’t always a romance girl. While I didn’t have anything against the genre, cracking open an honest-to-god romance novel—with all its swoons and sighs and NSFW expressions of ardor—made…
Bridget Read’s New Book ‘Little Bosses Everywhere’ Provides a Clear-Eyed View of MLM Scam Culture (and Its Many Victims)
How did you prepare to connect emotionally with the interview subjects in the book, some of whom lost everything? One thing I wanted to get into was the granularity of…
Journalist Sophie Gilbert on the Fraught State of Modern Womanhood
In her role as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she has covered Madonna, Taylor Swift, The White Lotus, Severance, and become a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for…
‘Notes to John’ Is Heartbreaking, Strange, and Unlike Anything Else Joan Didion Wrote
It has a great first line; most Joan Didion books do: “Re not taking Zoloft, I said it made me feel for about an hour after taking it that I’d…
With Her New Book, ‘Unfit Parent,’ Jessica Slice Upends Assumptions About Disability and Motherhood
With the rise of MomTok and mom-influencer chic, the cultural conversation around parenting has seemingly never been louder. Still, the voices of disabled parents—who number in the millions across the…
My Boyfriend’s Secret Girlfriend Was My Best Friend
We were all students of a small music program at a private college, which meant that I was the last person to know. I stepped offstage from a violin recital…
Cheat Sheets for ‘The Great Gatsby’s’ Centennial
One hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby,” the novel’s influence hasn’t exactly dimmed. From illuminating the Empire State Building in green — as a wink at…