The Art of Unruliness
Saidiya Hartman’s book evokes the longings of black women once labeled “wayward.”
Joanna Scutts
Joanna Scutts is the author of The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It.
How to Survive Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
Karina Longworth’s book ‘Seduction’ dismantles the story of a playboy.
Britain’s Boarding School Problem
How the country’s elite institutions have shaped colonialism, Brexit, and today’s global super-rich
Viv Albertine’s Punk Memories
“To Throw Away Unopened” is a memoir of family, freedom, and rebellion.
The Fight Women Won
Militant suffragettes’ most important tactic was to turn women’s bodies—supposedly passive, pliant, and protected—into a battleground.
Wallis Simpson Was No Bold Forerunner
As a British royal wedding approaches, a new biography of the Duchess of Windsor shows a life of fury and prejudice.
Genius and the Masculine Mania of Publishing
In A. Scott Berg’s book, and in the new film, the worn-out trope of the male literary genius gets one more day in the sun.
The Depression Era’s Magic Bullet For Weight Loss
The most effective diet pill of the twentieth century helped thousands of people lose weight—by boiling them from the inside.
A Publishing House of Her Own
Blanche Knopf built the reputation of the legendary publisher, but her name was left off the masthead.
