When Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—but that didn’t stop her from completing a poignant trilogy about a pair of friends coming of age in a world for w...

On December 5, 1905, America’s best and brightest literary minds convened at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City to fête the 70th birthday of Mark Twain. Women writers were well-represented on the invite list, including quite a few we’ve fe...

If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a Vespa on narrow cobblestone streets … and the obnoxious griping...

Venture to the wily, windy moors in this week’s bonus episode as Amy ponders a curiously-cast new screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Kate Bush hit single of the same name. She’ll also weigh in on some favorit...

Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset discovered and championed some of the most important Black wri...