I love a good anti-heroine: an unreliable, possibly even unlikeable narrator with her own agenda that often goes against ethics and logic…and sometimes, against goodness itself. But antiheroines are hard to find in romances—those roles usually belong to the dudes! Here are six antiheroines you’ll love to hate (and maybe love, too):
When I was in college, a friend of mine gave me the best advice I’ve ever received about procrastination, advice her father had given her: If you’re going to procrastinate, do it by tackling something else that’s also useful. This may sound obvious, but since I was someone who could get in a good few hours […]
Pity the poor boys in my life from 1996 on, few as they may have been. That was the adolescent year I first started reading novels by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, and even though at the time I had precious little real-world boyfriend experience, I still knew deep down that an actual teenaged […]
Across five published novels, Robert Jackson Bennett has made it a point to never write the same book twice. His debut, Mr. Shivers, won the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best horror novel. A year later, The Company Man picked up the Philip K. Dick Award for best sci-fi novel and the Edgar Award for […]
Sometimes it seems like classic novels have just always existed; they were there when most of us were born, and seem like eternal aspects of daily life. But behind every novel is a second story, a sometimes hidden tale about how that novel came to be. These stories-behind-the-stories are often just as fascinating as the novels […]