When Samaiya Mushtaq was growing up, she imagined marrying a kind Muslim man, and at 21, she did. But while studying to become a psychiatrist in...
THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a...
THE UNWORTHY, by Agustina Bazterrica; translated by Sarah Moses Writers have long been preoccupied with the end of the world, though perhaps it would be more...
Dorothea Angola, Shorto tells us, arrived in New Amsterdam enslaved, possibly in 1627. She married and had children, and in 1644, her husband petitioned the Dutch...
Laura Sessions Stepp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose reporting on teenage sex and “hookup” culture on college campuses explored in strikingly intimate detail how adolescent girls...
SUCKER PUNCH: Essays, by Scaachi Koul NO FAULT: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, by Haley Mlotek I can’t recall the first time I saw “The...
SEE FRIENDSHIP, by Jeremy Gordon In the decade since the hit show “Serial” turned the name “Adnan” into a dinner-party mononym, a new protagonist archetype has...
Any discussion of the New York 1920s avant-garde must include Van Vechten — music critic, drama critic, photographer, novelist, Florine Stettheimer subject, and friend and editor...
Writing a list of queer historical romances feels half like writing a manifesto and half like writing a eulogy. Here are the love stories we created;...
Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of...
