Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn ...

The American Girl doll, a beloved icon in the toy industry, has been capturing the hearts of children and collectors alike ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Glory Edim, who is the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, about her new memoir, ...

Babitz is now a cultural heroine as well as a literary, same as Didion. What she stands for is pleasure, polymorphous and ...

Set in North Dakota, Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red weaves a contemporary masterpiece of American literature from ...

You can never go wrong with a Disney movie but Disney princess movies are definitely our favorites. From Snow White to Moana, ...

Twelve years ago, Gillian Flynn was an unemployed journalist roving Chicago with a $2 paper wine bag as a purse and a baby on ...

The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion ... Now Anolik ...

Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of Hollywood’s most beloved writers: “Joan was often telling the truth about ...

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set ...

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...