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15 Female Romantica Authors Leaving Us Hot and Bothered!

Thanks to books like Fifty Shades of Grey, there’s been a huge boom in mainstream erotica novels. In fact, the popularity has birthed an entirely new genre, one that combines traditional romance novel tropes with steamy erotic situations. These new novels are called romantica -- and we can’t get enough of…
Rachel Carter
August 2, 2016
Fiction

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

Rachel Cusk earned critical renown with her “Outline” series, three books that strip bare traditional narrative formats and train the spotlight on minor characters, eliding the narrator’s identity and making her a mere conduit. Cusk’s newest novel, Second Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), performs an about-face from this approach, sinking…
Jessica McEntee
May 7, 2021