Nina St. Pierre

Growing up Evangelical in the rural Midwest, writer and astrologer Jeanna Kadlec did everything right. As she details in Heretic, her memoir of leaving the church and coming out as a lesbian, available on October 25, she was a devout child who married...

Until a couple years ago, I’d never worn perfume regularly. It always felt either wildly out of reach, or frilly and cheap. Then I came across Hi Wildflower, the beauty line by New York perfumer and writer, Tanaïs.

Set in the early ’90s, Later is a prismatic rendering of life in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the height of the HIV and AIDs epidemic. In Later, Lisicky renders it a one-word mythology: “Town."

Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden’s new Ambassador to the United States, discusses the historical bond between countries.

Marcus Samuelsson wants us to be careful how we talk about sustainability.

In Mosaic, HBO’S six episode television series directed by Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Ferrin plays Petra Neill.

Kari Luna’s debut young adult novel, The Theory of Everything, is a bright, shiny antidote to the dystopias and vampire love stories that dominate today’s YA shelves.

Lidia Yuknavitch gives the term “body language” fresh meaning in her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books). In response to Sigmund Freud’s famous case