When Bikini Bottom is ready to host a special event at the Krusty Krab, the town realizes that Patrick Star has gone missing! Afraid for their friend, SpongeBob and Squidward become private detectives ...

Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

During 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, S.R.D. Harris began to write children's books with her youngest daughter, Camryn Brooke.

The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...

Artists and cultural promoters have opened the feminist bookshop Inédita in Puebla, one of Mexico’s most conservative states. Their goal is to make literature written by women—who account for nearly a ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

In intimate interviews with fellow female directors working in the European and US arthouse film industry of the 1970s and ...

Taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos have just been published in “A Fearless Eye.” ...

There’s now a thriving industry based on expediting heartbreak. The lovelorn can check into a Heartbreak Hotel on London’s Broadway Market; do Yoga with Adriene classes to help them “tend to” their ...

Katie Mitchell, an Atlanta author and owner of Instagram store Good Books ATL, spent two years touring the country’s Black bookstores.

Romance has always been one of the most popular literary genres. Between the palpable yearning and blush-inducing intimacy making its way into books these days, there are almost too many love-filled ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.