ICON GONENobel Prize Winning Author Alice Munro Dead at 92The Canadian author won the Nobel for Literature in 2013. Jessica Ferri
MARGIN CALLElena Ferrante Shocks Us by Giving Voice to the UnspokenHer new book of essays about writing is as original as her beloved novels.Jessica Ferri
NIHILIST NOVEMBERBooks to Get You Through ‘Sad Girl Fall’Break out the oversize cardigans and organic chai, and get ready to indulge your inner autumnal sad girl, with these four delicious, melancholy tomes by brilliant women.Jessica Ferri
DIG, DIG, DIGRobert Caro Talks Writing and Research: ‘Turn Every Page’The Pulitzer-prize winning biographer of Robert Moses and LBJ (four volumes and counting) has a new book on writing and biography that begins and ends with a tireless work ethic.Jessica Ferri
DIRE STRAITSRevealed: Sylvia Plath’s Last Desperate LettersHer correspondence after being ditched by Ted Hughes reveal a woman and mother agonizing about money and in anguish that Hughes had abandoned her as both wife and artist.Jessica Ferri
TRUE CRIME TRUTHWhy Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Dead White Girls?What does it say about us that so many movies, novels, and TV shows (looking at you Dateline) fixate on the subject of violence committed against women?Jessica Ferri
FORESIGHTVirginia Woolf On How to Fight FascismThe English novelist and essayist argued that fascism begins in patriarchal repression, and that women must see themselves as a society of outsiders battling the status quo.Jessica Ferri
LANDMARKCapote’s Masterpiece Still Vivid at 50He’s had his critics, but none of the naysayers can diminish Truman Capote’s towering achievement in his gripping account of a gruesome quadruple murder on the Kansas plains.Jessica Ferri
MYSTERY MANYou’re Probably Misreading ‘The Lottery’Look beyond just Shirley Jackson’s famously controversial short story and something evil is lurking in her collection.Jessica Ferri
TrailblazerThe Gun-Toting Poet Who Invented Iraq<p>She was a pistol-packing linguist, cartographer, kingmaker—and soon, a Nicole Kidman subject. <em>A Woman in Arabia</em> provides a fresh look at the trailblazing Gertrude Bell, in her own words.</p> Jessica Ferri
