About the book: “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert encourages readers to embrace creativity with curiosity and courage, overcoming fear and self-doubt to live a more ...

There used to be a time when women were only supposed to succeed at ... in which they each realized that they'd gotten trapped in a self-destructive cycle. After hearing how exhausted Miller ...

Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, told us, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” These books provide empowering ...

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Perhaps more than any other sport, distance running requires athletes to push their limits. Ever since Pheidippides, the ...

With “Elaine,” a bit of Self’s mother lives on. The book’s epigraph comes from one of her diary entries, dated February 1956: “A woman who cannot, or will not, accept the conditions of ...

The woman says that we should allow ourselves our 20s as a time to fulfill our self-desires without worrying ... “We could book a one-way plane ticket tomorrow, and no one would question it.

The itinerant man in Gayl Jones’s “The Unicorn Woman” discovers his beloved as a sideshow carnival attraction. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review. When you purchase ...

Yesterday marked International Literacy Day, an event recognized by UNESCO to emphasize the role of literacy in personal ...