Culture
In Ground Truth, scientist and writer Ruby McConnell explores the connections between the landscapes we live in and the impact they have on our families, communities, and in our hearts. Read...
Ravishly presents a first look at the cover for Suzanne Roberts' Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, October 2020).
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.
Read...Chimera can denote a monster, a fantasy, or an organism containing at least two distinct sets of DNA. It is this hybridity, multiple sets of DNA woven together to form something new, that sets Chimerica apart. Read...
What if two people were so close they shared (almost) everything? Read...
We here at Ravishly are excited about DJ Lee's new memoir, Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots. We asked her to share a bit about the book with our readers and us. Read...
At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family’s cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of the 1970s and 1980s New York City. Read...
In a professional setting, there’s really no excuse for bad-mouthing anyway — be it your client, colleague or CEO. Read...