Rebecca Stoner

Lucasta Miller's new biography of the poet celebrates her literary triumphs while casting a skeptical eye on the society that rejected her.

Two new books argue for the virtues of pleasure—as an end in itself, but also as a political tool.

McMillan Cottom's new book is a powerful rejoinder to those who want black women to make peace with a marginal status.

They can be a threat to public health, and a poor solution to larger environmental problems. Organizers from Baltimore to Detroit to Los Angeles are working for a future without them.

Idra Novey's new novel examines power imbalances, and how they beget violence and silent complicity.

Three new books explore how and why our society is structured to make being a mother so hard.

Yoon's debut poetry collection draws together contemporary political critique with tales of the comfort women conscripted into sexual slavery during World War II.

Looking back at Adrienne Rich's politics and prose—and toward a radical feminist future.

Ottessa Moshfegh's unsettling, darkly funny new novel asks readers to wake up.

In his latest collection, the poet Terrance Hayes finds common ground with the many threats to our democracy.

Considering a new anthology of stories about rape culture—and two other anthologies about how to end it.

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

Daniel Borzutzky's new collection confronts the perverse logics of fascism and the free market.

In her new and radical memoir, Myriam Gurba discusses reclaiming political power through the art of nastiness.