Does Sarah Jessica Parker Really Read Two Books a Day?

A very chic, 2025-era update to those Get Caught Reading posters that used to adorn everyone’s local library dropped on social media this week: And Just Like That… star (and…

Beyond Blume: Mara Brock Akil Shares 9 More Books That Informed Her Netflix Hit ‘Forever’

With TV hits like Girlfriends, The Game, and Being Mary Jane under her belt, Mara Brock Akil is a bona fide legend—and her latest project, Netflix’s swoon-worthy Forever, is the…

Jannik Sinner eases to Italian Open semi-final as Coco Gauff books Jasmine Paolini showdown in Rome | Tennis News

Jannik Sinner dropped just one game to book his place in the semi-finals of the Italian Open with a crushing defeat of Casper Ruud. Sinner, back in action this week…

Romance Books are So Back—And Moms are Obsessed

The story goes a bit like this: She’s the youngest daughter of a starving family, he’s a prince whose kingdom is suffering from a curse. Though she doesn’t know it,…

Writer-Director Durga Chew-Bose on Françoise Sagan’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse’—And 7 More Books That Inspired Her First Film

Cécile (Lily McInerny) reading her novel, Claudia, Claudia—an oblique reference to one of Chew-Bose’s favorite actresses, Monica Vitti. (Vitti played a character named Claudia in Michelangelo Antonioni’s evocative, Mediterranean-set L’Avventura.)…

The 13 Best Romance Books to Read Right Now

I wasn’t always a romance girl. While I didn’t have anything against the genre, cracking open an honest-to-god romance novel—with all its swoons and sighs and NSFW expressions of ardor—made…

Bridget Read’s New Book ‘Little Bosses Everywhere’ Provides a Clear-Eyed View of MLM Scam Culture (and Its Many Victims)

How did you prepare to connect emotionally with the interview subjects in the book, some of whom lost everything? One thing I wanted to get into was the granularity of…

Journalist Sophie Gilbert on the Fraught State of Modern Womanhood

In her role as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she has covered Madonna, Taylor Swift, The White Lotus, Severance, and become a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for…

‘Notes to John’ Is Heartbreaking, Strange, and Unlike Anything Else Joan Didion Wrote

It has a great first line; most Joan Didion books do: “Re not taking Zoloft, I said it made me feel for about an hour after taking it that I’d…

Barcelona Open: Carlos Alcaraz books place in final after straights-set win over Arthur Fils | Tennis News

Top seed Carlos Alcaraz booked his place in the Barcelona Open final after completing a straight-sets victory over France’s Arthur Fils in the semi-finals. The Spaniard beat 14th seed Fils 6-2…