There's a quality to early summer—maybe it's just plain old nostalgia—that always makes you feel a bit like an earlier version of yourself. It's a feeling that I indulged recently by dipping into Sisterhood Everlasting.

The mythological secret government site is real, but it's not what you imagined.

Sanjiv Bhattacharya’s “Secrets and Wives” does much to improve our understanding of Mormon polygamists, what their lives are like and what challenges they face.

"My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me" by Hilary Winston is the DoubleX Book of the Week.

In “The Great Night,” Chris Adrian has created a mash-up world where the fantastical sits uneasily, and queasily, alongside the mundane.

Jean Auel finally concludes the Earth’s Children series. If you’ve read this far, you might as well finish the journey.

DoubleX co-founder Meghan O'Rourke's haunting memoir about grief is a must-read.

The heroine of new thriller The Informationist is drawing comparisons to the Millennium series' Lisbeth Salander. But does she stack up?

An acclaimed novelist in her own right, Nunez manages to be neither falsely reverential of her erstwhile mentor nor dishily diminishing. What emerges is a vision of the human behind Sontag the intellectual.

Margaux Fragoso's controversial, graphic account of her childhood sexual abuse is a feat of bravery, but is it worth reading?