In Defense of Marital Secrets
Lauren Elkin’s Scaffolding suggests that total honesty can take a relationship only so far.
Lauren Elkin’s Scaffolding suggests that total honesty can take a relationship only so far.
She and her narrators have always relied on swagger—but not this time.
Wronged explores how the practice of claiming harm has become the rhetorical province of the powerful.
Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”
Neel Mukherjee’s new novel explores the reality that no choice—particularly as a parent—is perfect.
In Lisa Ko’s ambitious, messy novel, characters go to extreme lengths in search of a purposeful existence.
A short story
This American Ex-Wife vividly describes the liberating power of a divorce but falters when it tries to persuade readers to follow suit.
The spiky, unsentimental writings of Diana Athill refuse to romanticize emotional discontent.
Alicia Kennedy’s new book is a paean to a life without meat. But she’s driven more by curiosity than a desire to convert her readers.