Claire Howorth

The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017

Political news dominated not only headlines in 2017, but the biggest, splashiest book titles of the year as well, from Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the Obama-Trump continuum to Hillary Clinton answering for herself the cries...

By Claire Howorth December 1, 2017

Motherhood Is Hard to Get Wrong. So Why Do So Many Moms Feel So Bad About Themselves?

Motherhood is supposed to be all about love and joy. So why do so many moms feel so bad?

By Claire Howorth August 11, 2020

Review: We Were Eight Years In Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates

What was the price of achieving a black ambition as old as the country itself?

By Claire Howorth October 12, 2017

This Week in Motto: The Bully at Work

Is it a man or a woman?

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Do You Speak Up?

At the office

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Vacation Hacks

Easy & fun

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Your Dad

Father's Day

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Do You Feel Like a Fraud?

Impostor syndrome

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

Bill Gates Discusses His Lifelong Love for Books and Reading

'Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world'

By Claire Howorth May 22, 2017

This Week in Motto: The Big Fight

Democrats and the abortion debate

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Our Mothers

Looking back, thinking forward

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Does It Happen in Your Office?

It's more common than you think

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Your Core Confidence

An essential

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon Is Unsurprisingly Extraordinary

A cinematic book about the murders of the Osage tribe and the formation of the FBI

By Claire Howorth April 13, 2017

Gen. Colin Powell On His New Effort to Help Kids Succeed

'We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment and civic duty.'

By Claire Howorth April 13, 2017

This Week in Motto: What We're Getting Wrong

Relive this week's top stories

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: The Joys and Challenges of Motherhood

Kate Middleton acknowledged this week that parenting was difficult

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week In Motto: Tell Us Your Story

And read our best pieces from the past week

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

Book Review: Hari Kunzru's 'White Tears' Is Beautiful and Strange

'A drugged-out, spoiled-rotten treatise on race, class and poverty of the soul'

By Claire Howorth March 16, 2017

This Week in Motto: The Barriers to Addressing Sexual Harassment at Work

The fine print that can keep discrimination in the dark

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

9½ Things You Should Never Say or Do to a Pregnant Woman (And 1 You Should)

You might want to just zip it

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

I Bullied Myself Into Breastfeeding

It's just one more way of putting women in their place

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: Finding Love in Grief

What we can learn from Beau Biden's widow dating his brother

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

This Week in Motto: What Does Feminism Mean to You?

To us it means equality

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

Finding Your Community

Introducing the Together tour

By Callie Schweitzer February 12, 2018

Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump Make 'Postpartum' Look Easy

And that's a complicated fact

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

Demi Lovato to DNC: 'I Am Living With Mental Illness'

"Too many Americans from all walks of life don't get help either because they fear the stigma or they can not afford treatment"

By Claire Howorth February 12, 2018

New York State of Mind

The shifting winds of fortune in the city that never sleeps comprise a special canon, and its latest entrant is Stephanie Danler's debut novel, Sweetbitter. Tess, an urban parvenu and "backwaiter" for a restaurant that...

By Claire Howorth May 20, 2016

Fewer Babies During Recession Could Hurt Economy

A post-recession reluctance to have more kids combined with our changing culture may put a years-long dent in the economy

By Claire Howorth May 10, 2016

The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time

The tech that forever changed the way we live, work, and play

By Lisa Eadicicco August 17, 2017

9 Questions With Mindy Kaling

The creator and star of The Mindy Project talks about her new book, Why Not Me?, her dream guest star and the importance of two minutes

By Claire Howorth August 27, 2015

In The Unfortunates, the Fall of a High-Society Dynasty

A family takes a tumble in Sophie McManus’s debut novel

By Claire Howorth June 18, 2015

Chris O'Dowd Had No Doubt Ireland Would Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

He said a "yes" vote is a sign Ireland "is escaping the clutches of the Catholic Church, finally"

By Claire Howorth April 28, 2021

10 Questions With Chris O’Dowd

Irish funnyman Chris O'Dowd on tasty wallpaper, imaginary friends and his Hulu show turned YA book series

By Claire Howorth August 18, 2015

I Bullied Myself Into Breastfeeding

Isn’t the strident case for breastfeeding just one more way of putting women in their place—as selfless slaves to the furthering of the human race rather than members of it?

By Claire Howorth March 19, 2015

9½ Things You Should Never Say or Do to a Pregnant Woman (And 1 You Should)

1. Do not say "Wow, you must have twins in there!" or "Did you swallow a basketball?" or “I don’t see any evidence!” In fact, do not comment on size, period. (Ever. Gestational status notwithstanding.)...

By Claire Howorth December 1, 2014

Butt Out! In Defense of Hot Moms

We Americans like our Moms and Wives a certain way—and only that way

By Claire Howorth April 28, 2021

10 Questions With Mick Fleetwood

The drumming icon talks about Fleetwood Mac’s reunion, his new memoir and the need to be hot

By Claire Howorth August 18, 2015

Harvest Boon: 7 Great Fall Books

A month of reaping great reads

By Eliza Gray October 2, 2014

A Zagat Guide to 'Hard Choices'—According to Amazon Reviewers

Hillary Clinton's new book already has as many reviews as the hottest restaurant—so why not harness the "wisdom" of the online bookseller's crowd?

By Claire Howorth June 11, 2014