Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

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Despite her regular brushes with the law, Meyrick left an indelible legacy. She was the inspiration for the character Ma ...

Han Kang won the Nobel last year. But her new novel, We Do Not Part, about an arduous trip and haunting memories, is unbalanced and fitful Lois Shearing’s book Pink-Pilled warns women to beware ...

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Based on the book, Dope Girls: The Birth of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn, the name alone suggests that the ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

In recognition of Black History Month, we have gathered a selection of books by Black authors and about Black lives that were ...

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus ...

Enslavers tortured our names, language, and culture out of us. Few of us can trace our lineage beyond the slave trade. A name ...

When Alabama woman Sha'nya Bennett learned she was pregnant with her second child, she had no idea that nine months later, Krispy Kreme would be listed on her child's birth certificate.

In the seventies, feminists around the world fought to recognize housework as work. Today, women are still doing more than ...