essays – The Staircase Window

Bread and Milk

Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope

The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings

A Decolonial Feminism

The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone

Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover

Who I Always Was: A Memoir

Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs

What Are We Doing Here?

Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1

Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele

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

Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser

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

Doll Hospital – Issue 1

Doll Hospital – Issue 2

Doll Hospital – Issue 3

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

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

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Slowing: Discover Wonder, Beauty, and Creativity through Slow Living

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays

Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It

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

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy

Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young

Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young

Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction

Intersecting Voices

One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

Gory Details

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Conversations with Monsters: On Mortality, Creativity, And Neurodivergent Survival

Lifeform

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Women Living Deliciously

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

The Word Pretty

Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on Burnout, Trauma & Building Communities of Care in Social Justice Work

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

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

A Muzzle for Witches

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)

Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

Like Love: Essays and Conversations

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

We’re Alone

How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

The Snarling Girl and Other Essays

I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

What Things Cost: an anthology for the people

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

Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

The Age of Loneliness

Rehearsals for Living

No Judgement: On Being Critical

Migratory Birds

You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies

Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

First Love: Essays on Friendship

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

Drawn to the Garden

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Women

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

Survival of the Thickest

I Curse You with Joy

Lady Secrets: Real, Raw, and Ridiculous Confessions of Womanhood

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Grief Is for People

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

Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece

Why Solange Matters

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

There is No Blue

An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round

Let Me Clear My Throat

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Animals Strike Curious Poses

The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

On Connection

Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

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

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

Everybody’s Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

On Community

This Long Thread

The Space Between

Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Catching the Light

Conversations with Birds

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Look Alive Out There: Essays

Black and Female: Essays

Girlhood

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

Dirtbag: Essays

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Ill Feelings

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

The Deadline

The Young Man

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

Black Friend: Essays

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

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

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Inverse Cowgirl

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Seven Days in the Art World

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

People Change

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Every Lie I’ve Ever Told

The Anti-Cool Girl

Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women

Sober Vibes: A Guide to Thriving in Your First Three Months Without Alcohol