pop culture – The Staircase Window

How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously

I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks

All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism

The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

Be My Baby: A Memoir

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

Accidentally on Purpose

Radical Intimacy

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics

I’ll Have What She’s Having

Rihanna Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Rihanna

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Pop Art

Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

Common Visual Art in a Social Digital Age

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover

Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

A Thousand Threads

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume

In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

From Here to the Great Unknown

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

Over the Influence

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

The Science of Strong Women: The True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fictional Feminists

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Earth to Moon

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women

The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis

Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction

Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Survival of the Thickest

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

Reinventing Love: How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Piece by Piece

The Golden Girls

The Book of Ayn

Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette

Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media

Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

British Vogue – January 2024

Time

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Little Girl Lost

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

This Much is True

Gracious: A Practical Primer on Charm, Tact, and Unsinkable Strength

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

My Cousin Maria Schneider

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

The Woman in Me

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Anna: The Biography

Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen

Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick—and How We Can Fight Back

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Adult Drama: And Other Essays

Lipstick and Leather: On the Road With the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

I’m Not with the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Be the Calm or Be the Storm: Leadership Lessons from a Woman at the Helm

All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

Tinder Translator: An A-Z of Modern Misogyny

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Jennifer Juniper

Awkword Moments: A Lively Guide to the 100 Terms Smart People Should Know

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Paris: The Memoir

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Hoop Muses: An Insider’s Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women’s) Game

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks

Black Futures