My Life as a Goddess is a cocktail of asides, digressions, footnotes, hyper-specific references to somewhat obscure pop culture items, and a voice that is equally self-deprecating as it is proud… read more

Arceneaux’s is a refreshing voice of honest worry mixed with irreverent humor… read more

Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding’s anthology contains essays that will not only inform and provoke us, but that will strengthen our collective resolve…. read more

The Oliver Sacks Foundation has now released Sacks’s first posthumously published book. There’s much to celebrate here… read more

In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby uses a killer sense of humor to show you that someone else is having as tough a time of it as you are, maybe even tougher… read more

A Failure to Communicate is a mix of fiction, essays, and criticism, all of which force the stifling impacts of silence to the forefront … read more

Is equality like obscenity?* You’ll know it when you see it?… read more

The Crunk Feminist Collective, or CFC, in both title and in this collection of essays creates a prolific multi-layered space that exists as a guidebook for survival, methodology, and conversation… read more

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex… read more

When Oliver closely observes the natural world, and thus enacts her maxim that “Attention is the beginning of devotion,” she deftly engages the reader with her detailed worldview… read more