Maria Hummel’s novel “Goldenseal” involves two female friends who meet up at a Los Angeles luxury hotel in 1990. Her two ...

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In ‘The Abandoners,’ Begoña Gómez Urzaiz writes about women who leave their families — and interrogates her reaction to them ...

In 1924, the critic Gustave Geffroy recalled watching Claude Monet at work in London in 1900. Positioned by the Thames in early morning darkness, Monet peered through the fog, waiting for the ...

We read a lot of contemporary books. It’s mostly fiction, but some of us push in a little nonfiction every now and then. We still read a lot of women authors and we always have. Physical books or ...

Now is the time to act ... The Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing once said: "Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read." ...