Throughout centuries of literature, women have written stories that changed the world. Their words broke barriers, sparked ...

While Freida McFadden's "The Housemaid is Watching" was the most popular fiction read at the West Fargo Public Library, ...

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women ...

"Women who claim the sea claim something men have guarded for centuries," Fatma Helal observes from her workspace, her words ...

Indianapolis native and the daughter of Martha Hoover of Patachou fame, Hoover’s debut book, a memoir, The Motherload, hits Jan. 14. In her published essays (which you can find here), wit and wisdom ...

One is the story of women strikers in Detroit in the 1930s, the other a searing look at what bipolar disorder does to a woman ...

These days, female authors are publishing as many books yearly as males. In a 2023 study, “The Welfare Effect of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books,” University of ...

Literature serves as both mirror and window, reflecting lived experiences while offering glimpses into worlds beyond our own. The written word has a unique capacity to preserve cultural memory, ...

Word on the street is that folks believe that romance and yearning are dead. But those of us who read Black romance novels know that both are alive and well in the pages of our favorite books. As more ...

Two new books by female writers consider what endures after upheaval. Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder” and Kanza Javed’s “What Remains After a Fire” arrive from different continents and ...