Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of a Japanese invasion. Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course […]

This October Vroman’s Bookstore is celebrating the extraordinary new anthology 50 YEARS OF Ms.: THE BEST OF THE PATHFINDING MAGAZINE THAT IGNITED A REVOLUTION (Knopf, Sept. 2023) and engage in critical conversation – with Ms. Consulting digital editor Carmen Rios, author and Ms. contributor Lisa Niver, and Nayereh Tohidi, a member of the Ms. committee of […]

Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial television docuseries that followed her disappearance in real-time. But is it possible that everyone missed the biggest secret of all? Ten years after these events, the people who […]

Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were […]

Chart a path away from exhaustion and endless crises and toward a place of renewal and radiant love with New York Times bestselling author Cleo Wade as your guide. The beloved poet is that friend you dream of having—the one you could phone in your darkest hours, confident she’d say the perfect thing, because no […]

What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? When the dream life you have been working towards become something you must walk away from? When you swap a Hollywood marriage and an LA mansion with waterside views, for a little attic flat shared only with your daughter, beneath the star-filled […]

Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles, right wing specters haunting the 'hood, masked vigilantes, and mad scientists in their underground lairs plotting world domination populate the stories in this rip-snorting collection. In these pages grindhouse melds with blaxploitation along with strong doses of B movie hardcore […]

Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment in a gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it's too good to pass up. Big mistake. Susan awakens every morning with fresh bug bites, but […]