Venture to the wily, windy moors in this week’s bonus episode as Amy ponders a curiously-cast new screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Kate Bush hit single of the same name. She’ll also weigh in on some favorit...

Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset discovered and championed some of the most important Black wri...

Leaping off galloping horses, teetering atop speeding locomotives and jumping out of airplanes — feats like these were all in a day’s work for Helen Gibson, a Hollywood film star who put the “hazard” in “The Hazards of Helen,” a wildly popular ...

Dastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bestseller, The Hidden Hand. Readers so admired this literary tomboy’s pluck that Capitola became a popular baby name...

Little is known about 15th-century Welsh bard Gwerful Mechain, but here’s what we do know: She threw down some slappin’ feminist rhymes in the “rap battle” equivalent of poem exchanges with her male counterparts. Find out what made the...