The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.

In a new collection of her letters, Laura Ingalls Wilder confronts the end of the frontier.

Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote bitter, morbid, and severe fictions, but her devotion to James was her undoing.

A search for meaning in the modern striptease.

A new book untangles our enduring, contradictory obsession with meat.

Ted Kaczynski's brother tells a moving story of complex family dynamics.

Ten years before Virginia Woolf called for a room of one’s own, this radical poet paved the way for literary feminists.

Her last years were mired in scandal, and more struggles over her unpublished works may lie ahead.

In Lina Meruane’s 'Seeing Red', the life of a blind woman is saturated with experience.

Rebecca Traister’s new book follows the unmarried women who are remaking America.

How hair became a fashionable way to remember the dead.

The unsettled science of weight control.