More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Spotlighting books that tell important feminist stories.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Happy June! Happy Pride! Happy Caribbean-American Heritage Month! Happy summer!
Wherever you are and however you spend your month, I hope you are able to slow down, rest and enjoy life with a good book.
The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. have partnered with Women’s Foundation California to invite you to a national virtual conversation with Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs that turns our attention toward the system that has kept us from achieving true democracy for the last 250 years: patriarchy.
Drawing from her latest book (and New York Times best-seller) Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us, Tubbs traces the ruthless logic that has organized American life for 250 years—always bound to race, always rooted in a binary that decides who counts and who does not.
The event is Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 CT / 8:30 ET. RSVP today!
Tubbs will be joined in conversation by Aisha Becker-Burrowes, co-founder and co-executive director of FEMINIST—a nonprofit media company serving a global community of over 6 million—and interviewed by TV host, journalist and content creator, Danielle Robay.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Whether or not you pick up the science books on our lists, or you try some poetry, or a new-to-you genre of fiction, I hope you find something here that’s both exciting and educational.
Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and share them with you.
In 2021, I tried something a bit different with the poetry list: Instead of the usual blurb, I focused my thoughts about each collection into three words. Readers responded so well to it that I decided to keep doing it. Sometimes the words are nouns, sometimes verbs, sometimes adjectives—and I may have just made up some words too. The words I choose are always inspired by the collection and often taken directly from it. Sometimes I try to be clever, other times straightforward and you can tell I love my alliteration. Since I find it challenging to be succinct, this is a valuable exercise in imagination, reflection and, well, restraint.
I hope you find some collections that will have you reflecting on how poetry moves you, challenges you and represents you.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
April means a new season, with plants sprouting and leaves returning to deciduous trees. It also means new books—and lots of them!
Check out the 25 books we’ve chosen to highlight this month.
Here’s what I know as an OB-GYN: Any book about birth that ignores abortion access isn’t just incomplete—it’s dangerous.
I also know that any person researching birth plans needs to know how state laws could limit their care during a pregnancy complication, even if they never imagined needing an abortion. Even if they self-identify as being staunchly antiabortion.
This is precisely why I talk about abortion in my book, a book meant for people who want to have a baby.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Wishing you a powerful, inspired and liberatory Women’s History Month!
Check out this month’s list of 24 books.
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
There are hundreds of books being released every month, and it is challenging to narrow down the titles to a manageable list of 20-ish. I pride myself on finding the hidden gems—the ones you may not hear about otherwise. That means that I sometimes forgo some of the most buzzy books for ones that haven’t gotten as much publicity, even though they deserve it.
So all that said, here is February’s list of 28 books. It was one of those months where it was tough to decide—enjoy the extra titles!
Across ideologies, the clearest and most consistent predictor of mass shootings is not political extremism alone—it is rising gendered grievances, patriarchal backlash, and perpetrators’ histories of gender-based violence and misogyny.
That is the focus of Miller-Idriss’ groundbreaking new book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
On Feb. 18, 2026, Miller-Idriss and Ms. executive editor Kathy Spillar will explore how misogyny fuels radicalization, how gender-based grievances are weaponized by extremist movements, and why confronting patriarchy is essential to preventing future violence. Join us in person or online.
Soraya Chemaly’s latest book, All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, is the manifesto we need for this current moment—a fascinating and infuriating exploration of the ways in which systems of male supremacy are hurting all of us, and how we can collectively chart courses to liberation.