Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn about women—and themselves—from these books?

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

Screening on opening night at DOC NYC, the film builds around an interview from near the end of its subject's life to deliver a close study of a celebrated author who became a cultural pariah in her ...

A Sebastopol writer speculates on what the famous TV chef might have been doing as an agent with the OSS during World War II ...

The author reacts ... of a glamorous female freelance spy with a track record of entrapping impressionable young men. She’s ...

Thursday marks the start of the holiday season at a famous home in Bucks County, and you can take a peek at some of this year ...

The Beaver Local Alumni Hall of Fame recently inducted four new members in the Class of 2024. Catherine Kirkbride Keenan ...

Better under Trump? Think again. Well, the people have spoken. Apparently people think Donald Trump will lower their cost of living. But think again. Trump plans big tariffs on foreign goods; some ...

Renee Weingarten founded the Facebook group Renee's Reading Club to share book recommendations. It has since grown into a ...

Although we don’t, as in Shakespeare’s famous play, ever make it inside the gates ... had been required to live,” are glass ...

Before she achieved literary fame with her first novel, Allison ran a feminist bookstore and a women’s center ... class or wealthy writers. “Hunger makes you restless,” Allison writes. “You dream ...

“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...