Historian Janice P. Nimura tells the story of America’s first and third certified women doctors and the role these sisters played in building medical institutions.
Paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman says the concept of “getting exercise” is relatively new. His new book, Exercised, examines why we run, lift and walk for a...
Poetry helps us express feelings that don’t fit neatly into sentences; confusion and fear but also hope and joy. Here’s the second installment of our...
Corpses pile up, but there are no human footsteps surrounding the dead bodies — only animal footprints. This strange, darkly funny film mixes feminism, social...
Tyler Stovall writes white freedom is “the belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and that only white people can or...
Nnedi Okorafor’s multi-faceted new novella follows a young girl in a near-future version of Ghana who becomes the Adopted Daughter of Death — but she...
The 22-year-old composed a poem, “The Hill We Climb,” that acknowledges the recent insurrection attempt, but turns resolutely toward hope. “The new dawn blooms,” she...
This is Gurganus’s first book since 2013, and it’s worth the wait. These stories are funny, compassionate, and marked by the author’s amazing ability to...
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story...
MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI’s campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn about their new film, Pieces of a Woman, about a home birth gone terribly wrong...
Randi Pink’s new novel follows a young couple, Angel and Isaiah, whose budding love is set against the backdrop of historical tragedy: the Tulsa race...