A Galentine’s Day for the Books
If you buy through our links, we may earn a small commission—never at extra cost to you. We review everything we recommend. Scroll past the glitter-covered travel mugs and heart-shaped plushies and instead gift your besties something they want to curl up with: A good book. I’ve long believed the best Valentine’s Day-adjacent holiday is […]
Reading Through Grief
Books to bring along when navigating loss There it was on my computer screen. A billboard for sadness. For anyone else it was just the “last opened date” on a story draft, this very story in fact, but for me it was a relic from the “before” time. Before the doctors told us my father’s […]
Books That Tingle
Your Feral Girl Summer Reading List: No Shame, Just Heat in Book Recommendations for Women The nights are steamier, the outfits clingier, and your people-pleasing tendencies are packed away with the fleece. Welcome to Feral Girl Summer. This is your permission to read for you—loud, messy, sexy, wild, and unhinged. These books tingle in all […]
Reinventing The Wheel: Megan Abbott’s New Take on When Women Are Out of Options
Set during the Great Recession, Megan Abbott’s novel unpacks the seductive danger of multi-level marketing schemes—and the women they leave behind. During the pandemic, we binged true crime and cult documentaries like they were comfort food to go along with our sourdough. But it wasn’t the murderers that stuck with crime novelist, Megan Abbott. It […]
Renegade Grief – Carla Fernandez Talks About Her New Book
I talk to my father every day. Mostly we discuss whatever problems, small or big, are happening in my life. He usually tells me to get over it, or that it will all work out, or even that the solution will present itself when the time is right. Sometimes he tells me to down a […]
Book Recommendations For Women Who Read the Room: 15 Books for Every Mood
Book recommendations for women, when you’re feeling self-assured, silly, sexy, scholarly, or serene. Has your inner diva been lobbying for more airtime? Your fearless dial turned all the way up to ferocious? Or, maybe you have been riding a wave of calm—or very much want to be. Whatever your current inner state (or let’s be […]
Jennifer Jones Kicked Down the Door: The First Black Rockette on Dance, Resilience, and Making History
In 1987, the Rockettes had been high-kicking for audiences for more than six decades—without a single Black woman on the line. It wasn’t an oversight. It was policy, tradition, and intentional exclusion, all masked as a commitment to uniformity and “authenticity.” That changed when Jennifer Jones, the first Black Rockette, stepped onto the stage at […]
What Do Wordle and Winnie the Pooh Have in Common?
The Simple, the Universal, and the Human Need for Meaning Why do we gravitate toward the simple when life feels overwhelmingly complex? Perhaps it’s because the simple reminds us of what’s essential. Take Winnie the Pooh and Wordle—two cultural phenomena that, at first glance, couldn’t be more different. One is a storybook bear navigating honey […]
What’s With All the Book Club Gatekeeping?
Have you ever tried to join a book club? No? Lucky you. I spent years being rejected—yes, rejected—by book clubs across the country. I had no idea book clubs were so exclusive. You’d think I was trying to join some secret society. No matter where I tried, a sometimes snarky gatekeeper would say, “We’re full,” […]
