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No Filter: I’m Being Completely Normal About Our Good Friend Chef Melissa King

Melissa King reads Padma's memoir, Kehlani hangs with THEE Missy Elliot, Robby Hoffman really loves her wife and more from this week in celebrity instagram! The post No Filter: I’m...

My Friend Bambi

“When the baddest bitch in the room makes you feel seen you never forget it.”

Girls in bands: Two ’90s rock icons on romance, ruthlessness, and boring men

IN THE 1990s, Melissa Auf der Maur played bass in two of the decade’s most notable rock bands: Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.

The Woman With a Confusing Crush on Her Guy Friend

In this week’s story, a 25-year-old account manager hooks up with a submissive surgeon while yearning for another man in her life.

Writing Is a Way to Have Futurity

Being a student of Monica Ferrell’s was a singularly influential time in my life. Immediately upon meeting her, I wanted to be like her: to enter a room with the same serious allur...

Heartbreak Feels Good in a Lena Dunham Memoir Like This

The true pleasures of Famesick can be found in the most painful sections.

A Beloved Teacher’s Casual Homophobia Still Hurts

“The Last Analog Childhood,” an excerpt from My Bad by Hugh Ryan Señora was my favorite teacher for the first half of seventh grade, one of the few who didn’t seem to hate spending...

The Summer I Didn’t Respect Myself

Somewhere between beach bonfires, almost-love, and boys who confused attention with devotion, I realized the real heartbreak of summer wasn’t being chosen. It was abandoning myself...

Brooke Averick's Debut Novel "Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It" Brings A Fresh Perspective To The Romance Genre

"Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It" combines nostalgia for early-2000s rom-coms with a contemporary exploration of mental health.View Entire Post ›

The Woman Getting Herself Off in the Bathroom After Sex

In this week’s story, a bisexual 27-year-old with a serious boyfriend wonders if she’s missing out on other experiences.

Lena Dunham Opens Up About the Cost of Fame

The 20-year-old was the voice of a generation, praised for her era-defining HBO series Girls. But the ensuing stardom came at a cost to both her physical and mental health. In a se...

The Work of Feeling

In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping, biting, and hair-pulling that...

Amanda Seales recalls 2023 sexual assault in new memoir series: ‘The experience revealed a lot to me about myself’

Amanda Seales releases “Crank Dat Through a Sexual Assault” as resource for sexual assault survivors and their loved ones.   If

The Sweet (and Savory) Rise of Melissa Ben-Ishay

The Baked by Melissa founder turned her popular TikTok videos into a new cookbook, Come Eat.

Melissa Etheridge Recalls Being ‘Horrified’ When British Magazine Changed Partner Pronoun to ‘Boyfriend’: ‘They’re Going...

The singer told Joel Madden that the purposeful misgendering inspired her to officially come out at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.

You Can’t Build a Baddie

And other dating tips and tricks from Tiffany Baira, a.k.a. New York City’s Cupid and the host of Street Hearts and Love Train.

Violent Femmes: Must-Read Books by Women That Foreground Brutal Beauty

A new wave of authors is mining the territory between brilliance and ugliness to produce some of the most adventurous and emotionally unsparing literature being written today.

The Wildest Things We’ve Done to Impress Our Crushes

Featuring bedbugs, a broken nose, terrible tattoos, and regrettable Venmo decisions.

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Shelf Life: Carley Fortune

The Our Perfect Storm author takes ELLE’s literary survey.

Lindy West Is Reclaiming Her Agency

When I call my pal Lindy West, she answers from the road. She’s driving down Interstate 69 (nice) through some rural stretch of Indiana and tells me she just passed a billboard for...

Melody Lee Wants Women to Claim Their Seat at the Table

Stuck in the Middle

Mallary Tenore Tarpley developed an eating disorder at the age of 11 following the death of her mother. 30 years later, she recounts her ongoing struggles with anorexia and bulimia...

Lena Dunham Admits to Cheating on Jack Antonoff in 'Famesick' Memoir

Love her or hate her, Lena Dunham is very much back in public discourse, and the verbose voice of a generation has underscored her recent