File under “awesome”: A new podcast has entered literary orbit and its hosts are none other than Roxane Gay, author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist,… Read more »

The Thirtieth Annual Lambda Literary Awards were held this past Monday at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing arts in New York City. Comedian Kate Clinton served as host. Among… Read more »

Over the last month, the spotlight of popular outrage has once again turned (rightly) to illuminate the heinous, often habitual, sexual abuse that takes place in our culture. The details—the names, the… Read more »

A new federal airport security protocol requiring TSA agents to examine passengers’ reading materials is raising questions about whether such screenings could lead to increased profiling on a religious or… Read more »

Milo Yiannopoulos went down in flames yesterday — spectacularly so, in a way that will likely leave him a regular guest on the Bill Maher show but unemployed and radioactive forever… Read more »

On the day when the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report about a dramatic rise in hate groups that it blamed on “the Trump phenomenon” … on the day… Read more »

Over water coolers throughout the book industry, discussion of the Milo Yiannopoulos book deal with Simon and Schuster is still raging. The overwhelming consensus is clear: Shame on Carolyn Reidy… Read more »

As the rotting, aching tooth known as 2016 is readied for final extraction, we’re revisiting some of our favorite MobyLives posts from the past year. This one originally ran on July 27. Ever stop… Read more »

Ever stop by your local bookstore to pick up a tract by the latest feminist writer and realize that you couldn’t find it on the tables because, erm, your vision… Read more »

Built in 1841, the large, Greek Revival building at 55 Wall Street has housed the New York Merchants Exchange, the United States Custom House, and the National City Bank—the earlier,… Read more »