Motherhood is often presented as a beautiful, tender experience: new mommies cradle their babies and coo, bedrooms are given a fresh coat of paint and decorated in celebration, and everyone smiles and sighs happily. The fact is, motherhood is tough, and it takes a lot of energy, moral fortitude, and plain old-fashioned physical strength to […]
The literary world—the entire world, it seems—is abuzz at today’s release of Go Set a Watchman, the sort-of sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most beloved novels of all time. Even we genre fans must pause to reflect a moment: we probably all read Harper Lee’s novel in school at some point, and its portrait of […]