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Adolescent-appropriate fiction to challenge and inspire budding bookworms.
Joy Press’s new book, “Stealing the Show,” traces the ways in which women have transformed the TV landscape.
Caitlin Macy’s novel “Mrs.” homes in on the conflicted lives of three Manhattan women and the corrupt man on whom they take vengeance.
On the road to equality, women’s historic achievements have often been dry footnotes in American schools. These authors are out to change that.
Abby Norman’s “Ask Me About My Uterus” describes her quest to get proper medical attention.
In “Dear Madam President,” the Clinton campaign’s former communications director Jennifer Palmieri tells young women how to succeed in politics.
Emily Chang examines a tech culture that has become a boys’ club, hostile and averse to women.
Like a pair of supersleuths, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian reconstruct the golfer’s life and offer new angles on old stories.
Two new books, Patricia Fara’s “A Lab of One’s Own” and Claire L. Evans’s “Broad Band,” put women back into the history of science.
In “Just the Funny Parts,” Nell Scovell — who’s crafted jokes for everyone from David Letterman to President Obama — describes the toxic misogyny she’s endured.
Why did it take nearly four decades for the world to realize that she was right?
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Cass R. Sunstein talks about “Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide” and “Can It Happen Here?”; and Kathryn Hughes discusses “Victorians Undone.”
The liquids in your stomach may help the note survive the crash, novelist Brad Meltzer says. That’s just one thing he learned while researching his new novel, “The Escape Artist.”
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: impeachment.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Krystal Sital’s memoir, “Secrets We Kept,” recounts the violence and poverty endured by her mother and grandmother in rural Trinidad.
A graphic retelling of the Irish fin-de-siècle aesthete’s whirlwind 1881 overseas tour.
From baby bumps to facial hair, Kathryn Hughes’s “Victorians Undone” asks what we can learn about a culture by studying the human bodies it produces.
Bullying, scary news and the need for kindness are at the center of new books by Kerascoët, Jessica Love and others.
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