My very favorite Bossy March reads! I'm taking a break from social media for Lent, and while I love to talk books on Instagram and...

Gagne never experienced emotions the way other kids did, and when she grew older, while acting out, lying, stealing, and fighting violent...

Mayer's memoir focuses on straddling two cultures without feeling fully integrated into either; the various frustrations, injustices, and...

Lorne is a thorough, 650-page look at Michaels's creation of and steering of SNL . What I found most fascinating were the...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming mystery set in glamorous Capri by Katy Hays, Saltwater ; I'm listening to standup...

Six More Great Bossy Historical Fiction Reads It's March, and I'm still spending Fridays obsessing over my favorite reads of the past...

The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character...

In Curtis Sittenfeld's wonderful second short-story collection, we meet imperfect characters, often fortysomething women, in moments...

I loved the behind-the-scenes peeks at the drama, punishing hard work, sequins, and mind games of competitive figure skating. The...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Kills Well with Others , the newest novel in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible...

Whitehead, inspired by a real-life reform school that abused and terrorized boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice,...

Jonathan Haidt's examination of the power of smartphones and social media may feel logical and disturbingly unsurprising, but he offers...

In Kristy Boyce's young-adult charmer, high schoolers Riley and Nathan, coworkers who have nothing in common, end up in a fake-dating...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Red Dog Farm , Nathanial Ian Miller's fiction about a young man growing up...

Six Great Bossy Literary Fiction Reads I read so many read literary fiction books last year, I'll need another best-of-the-year list. But...

Taylor Jenkins Reid offers the story of a band, its making, and its unmaking, through interviews with various characters that illuminate...

In Kelly Link's wonderfully oddball debut novel The Book of Love , she uses every bit of the book's 640 pages to build realities,...

Time of the Child feels like poetry in prose form, and Williams richly shapes a small-town Irish community's everyday and extraordinary...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Anxious Generation , nonfiction by Jonathan Haidt that explores technology and an explosion of...

My very favorite Bossy February reads! February is the shortest month, but I squeezed in some great reading: compelling historical...