Joanna Scutts

A new biography of Eugene Debs makes clear that in the United States, the story of socialism is really the story of opposition to socialism.

Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.

In “The Club,” Jennifer Dasal investigates a refuge for (some) expat artists in the City of Light.

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

“Gabriële” considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others.

When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

Stories of women who dared to be different: a beautiful volume celebrating a diverse and international selection of rebellious writers.

FAMM, or the Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, is Europe’s first private museum exclusively dedicated to art made by women.

As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.

As recounted in Jennet Conant’s biography, Marguerite Higgins played the high-stakes game of journalism in a man’s world.

The notorious Madame Restell lived large and fearlessly in a century not so far, far away.

Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

For middle-class bohemians in New York before the First World War, Greenwich Village was the place to be. The attraction of this part of Manhattan was the

Author and critic Joanna Scutts considers Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers within the lineage of literature about swimming pools.

Mark Braude’s biography of a bohemian icon makes a case for Kiki de Montparnasse as an artist in her own right.

Her life would be extraordinary enough without the part she played as a secret agent during World War II.

In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.

On trusting an infant tracker during lockdown.

The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideas.