Books

10 Essential Books About Writing

Must-read titles for writers include works by Elena Ferrante, Akwaeke Emezi, Meg Wolitzer, Yoko Ogawa, and more.

All That You Change Changes You: A Conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

If you know anything about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, you probably know she’s a tough femme whose work spans a wide and ever-growing range of conversations, topics, feelings, and experiences. Read more »

Watch Janet Mock and "Sense 8" Star Jamie Clayton Talk Gender and Sci-Fi

In Sense 8, Jamie Clayton and Freema Agyeman play a couple named Nomi and Amanita. New Netflix show Sense 8 is a thriller about eight strangers whose lives become intertwined. Read more »

I Love Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts"

Poet, essayist, and genre-bender Maggie Nelson. Photo by Harry Dodge. The Argonauts is a nuanced examination of gender, trans and nonbinary identities, queer sexualities, queer family-making, and how all of these play into each other. Its feminism is a given. Read more »

Sneak Peek of Petra Collins' New Photo Book "Babe"

“As a young female artist, I never saw a place for my work, didn’t see images I felt reflected me anywhere,” writes 21-year-old photgrapher Petra Collins in the introduction to new photo book Babe.... Read more »

Kelly Link Discusses the Feminist Fairy Tales of Angela Carter

A reluctant vampire queen. A randy captive princess. A wolf child who finds her only friend in the mirror. You’ll find these characters and more between the unassuming French folds of the newly released edition of Angela Carter’s classic 1979 short story collection ... Read more »

After 20 years, Amelia's Notebook is Wrapping Up

When Marissa Moss was growing up, she kept journals in composition books with speckled black and white covers. Read more »

Jessica Hopper is Planting a Flag for Feminist Music Criticism

Our work can be really tokenized because of how, lots of times, women’s work is not recorded. It’s not canonized. Read more »

Carol Weston Knows All About Teen Girl Problems

When I was growing up, my mom got me a subscription to Girls’ Life magazine. When it came every month, the first thing I did was turn to the ... Read more »

Jillian Tamaki Talks Comics, Mutants, and Why Canada is Awesome

Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reportecalled it: This is going to be Jillian Tamaki’s... Read more »

A New Book Looks At How Working Women Are Shortchanged

An Equal Pay Day protest—photo by the Australian Services Union. We all know that women across the United States make less money than men. But on top of that, the industries that employ majority... Read more »

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Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »

Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens... Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction

Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture. Read more »