Romance novels, with their glistening muscles and southern belles, usually feature a dominating male and a submissive female. “The prototypical romance novel is the bodice ripper,” says writer Jackie ...

The conceit of this column is simple: I write about books I’m reading. New, old, obscure, overrated — whatever’s on the nightstand is fair game. So while most weeks are devoted to new releases or ...

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Erica Jong's novel, Fear of Flying, broke ground with frank discussions of feminism and sex when it came out in 1973. NPR's Sarah McCammon asks Molly Jong-Fast about her mother's legacy 50 years on.

If you’ve never read a historical romance novel — sometimes called “bodice rippers” — you might think they are full of retro and regressive tropes: The woman is almost always a young, delicate, ...

Even before her daughter was born, artist Tyler Cohen was determined to raise a feminist. But what’s a mother to do when her young daughter starts dancing around, singing about how sexy, sexy, sexy ...