Sloane Tanen, author of "There's a Word for That," recommends overlooked books by and about women
Top female writers and editors recommend other female authors who have somehow been overlooked or forgotten, either because of their gender, the language in which they wrote, or their books have gone out of print.
Ernest Hemingway's time in Paris is the stuff of legend, but key players in his story are often overlooked. Samuél Lopez-Barrantes sheds light on a group of pioneering women who had a lasting influence on the young writer.
Top female writers and editors recommend other female authors who have somehow been overlooked or forgotten, either because of their gender, the language in which they wrote, or their books have gone out of print.
The third installment of Forgotten Women of Film History focuses the lens on socially conscious actress, writer, director and producer Lois Weber. Weber was the first American woman to direct
Photos from '90s Girl Crushes You Totally Forgot About
Eye-opening true stories and biographies about some of the most inspiring women in British history, the forgotten feminists Extraordinary Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, masculine when she should be feminine. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.
“The diary is a bridge between two periods in her work and also between illness and health, writing and not writing, looking and feeling.”
Top female writers and editors recommend other female authors who have somehow been overlooked or forgotten, either because of their gender, the language in which they wrote, or their books have gone out of print.
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor....
Madrid exhibition highlights literary trailblazers including Ana Caro, who was paid to write a play as far back as 1638
Novelist Therese Anne Fowler, who brought Zelda Fitzgerald to life in 2013's Z, turns her attention to another fascinating Southern woman: Alva Vanderbilt
Always cherchez la femme, people.
Morgan Jerkins reflects on the writer's lost legacy, her relationship with W. E. B. Du Bois, and her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.
I’m a huge fan of business motivation quotes. It’s one of the most common things I pin on our Pinterest account. The thing is, whenever my motivation lags, quotes help me recharge. They remind me of what I’ve forgotten while drowning in doubts and fears. Since I suffer from it…
Rosita Forbes was a glamorous Englishwoman whose daring adventures across the world are now all but forgotten
She was one part sharp tailoring, and another part unruly bohemian. As a style icon Annemarie Schwarzenbach embodied simplicity in its most beautifully androgynous form, a simple shirt and trousers at
Peggy Angus isn't much celebrated today but these pictures from a new show at the Towner in Eastbourne highlight the work of a 20th-century great
The four poems and an essay find the confessional poet detailing American life in the 1950s, from skiing to suburban lawn care
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948) was an artist, writer, and personality who helped to establish the Roaring Twenties image of liberated womanhood embodied by the "flapper." She and her husband, novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), became icons of the freedoms and excesses of the 1920s Jazz Age and symbols of the emerging cultural fascination with youth, […]
Masha Gessen on Svetlana Alexievich, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
Nancy Cunard photographed by Man Ray, 1925. When we think of an heiress, we tend to picture an overdressed spendthrift sipping a top shelf cocktail from an expensive crystal glass; her eyes mischievously peering over the rim telling stories of glamour, sex and scandal. Heir to the Cunard shippin
