Maggie Doherty

Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.

Her latest book, Audition, puts the family center stage.

Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.

The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

For years, his work has been marked by his creeping fear that the world is in need of an urgent intervention—and why not from him?

Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.

The activists of the 1990s worked so diligently that they were written out of history.

How sexism and machismo shaped a prestigious writing program

The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

In her new novel “Motherhood,” Sheila Heti reflects on fate, agency, and time.

The feminist intellectual died on Wednesday at 82. Her unapologetic utopianism offers lessons for all of us.

How Angela Carter escaped a puritanical childhood and stifling marriage, and reimagined sexuality.

Feminists do not have to be ideologically pure to be radical.

Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.

Today's most heated literary arguments uphold the legacy of Kate Millett's 'Sexual Politics.'

A young professor reflects on John Williams’s cult novel on its 50th anniversary.

Lucia Berlin defies our expectations for “grim” working-class fiction