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The novelist’s cult book about a stay-at-home mother who turns into a dog is now a film starring Amy Adams. She talks about modern parenting, breaking taboos, and how Trump’s win spurred her to write.
“When people ask me what the movie is about, I’m like, ‘It’s about motherhood and rage,’” says director Marielle Heller in this exclusive first look. “And you either get that or you don’t.”
Amy Adams-vehicle Nightbitch has landed a Dec. 6, 2024, release in cinemas during the heart of awards season. The Searchlight Pictures and Annapurna film was originally intended to debut on Hulu, but will now get a theatrical release.
With series and movies such as ‘Yellowjackets’ and ‘Bones and All,’ female characters with an unbridled appetite have become a hallmark of our culture.
Birth is a transformational experience but it's also an emotionally fraught one, with sometimes traumatic consequences, says midwife Leah Hazard. Here she recommends five books that discuss the deep psychological impact of childbirth, the debate over interventionism, and the inequalities baked into the practice of obstetrics.
How do the demands of motherhood change us and can we survive with our pre-parenting identities intact? Rachel Yoder and Esther Freud in conversation.
Traditional depictions of motherhood failed in the face of the baffling new reality I faced once I became a mother.
Some of the Fodor’s editors are sharing what they loved to read this year, from new releases to books that have been on their wishlist for years.
The DNA of “Nightbitch,” it turns out, is more Angela Carter than Rachel Cusk. It sees the past decade’s cerebral fictions of motherhood and raises them several murdered forest creatures, a shit on a lawn, and a pack of M.L.M. moms stoned on trippy drugs watching another mom scarf raw steak.
In the novel Nightbitch, motherhood is a feral unbecoming. And in writing the best-selling book, the new mother and author, Rachel Yoder, returned to herself again.
Janet Manley on Hettie Judah and the Perennial Problem of the “Mother-Shaped Hole”
Leticia Urieta, author of "Las Criaturas," recommends stories about channeling anger and unruliness in the face of oppression
“It wasn’t long after I first held Evie that a somewhat familiar, yet unrecognizable darkness began to follow me around, and after some testing and hard truths were admitted, doctors were called, medication was prescribed, and talk therapy was set up.
A few weeks later, I found Nightbitch…”
In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Rachel Yoder (Nightbitch) about the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara.
In a crowded field of novel-manifestos about the indignity of parenting, Nightbitch is primal and corporeal, a labor scream of a book..
In this unforgettable debut novel, Yoder delivers an outrageous Kafka-esque parable about the mundanity and monstrosity of early motherhood.
If you’ve ever suspected motherhood had a darker, possibly feral underbelly, you’re sure to enjoy this darkly hilarious debut…
The red of it all is rather striking, and the classic advertising imagery, soft and grainy, feels both nostalgic and subversive, especially considering the novel’s premise: A stay-at-home mother/artist becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog. Blink and you’ll miss the butcher paper in the shape of a doberman’s head.
Giving birth is the closest many of us come to being an outright animal. We crouch on all fours, dripping and howling, and, if it goes well, we are aided by instincts we didn’t know we had to push a snuffling, bloody creature into the world. Yet immediately, we are expected to give up on this new animality and return to society, whether it comes in the guise of work and childcare or maternity leave and baby massage classes. What if we refuse to do so?
Nightbitch is a satirical swipe at the failed ‘have it all’ lifestyle…By its conclusion, readers have to wonder: what is the ‘all’ that we were promised to have…
As a society, we know that women are angry. Still, we as women are expected to keep this anger close to us like a secret. If we ever do let it slip out, we are labeled “hysterical,” and “crazy”—descriptions that are meant to discredit us and our pent-up rage. Rachel Yoder’s recent debut book Nightbitch explores this anger through her main character, a woman so angry that she believes she is turning into a dog.
Last week, I had just finished the last page of Rachel Yoder’s fantastic novel, Nightbitch. I picked up my phone and found an eerily fitting screenshot from the show.
Thanks for watching my review for this book. If you are or have ever been a parent I'd love to know what you thought about it, and how much Yoder got absolutely spot on! This book will be on my mind for a while, and even now I'm thinking of stuff I wish I'd said here.
Libras are all about balance, because without balance, you might just wind up going a little . . . feral. So they will understand perfectly the plight of the artist in this book, who feels very unbalanced in her relegation to the household after the birth of her son, and one day discovers, quite by accident, that as a result she is beginning to turn into a dog. My fellow Libras, I know you already know.
Halfway through Nightbitch, I realized I’d been picturing the events taking place in the house where we lived when my first child was little.
This one already had tongues wagging last year when Amy Adams optioned it for film while it was still in manuscript form. Now readers will have a chance to see what all the fuss is about, and judging by the instantly iconic cover and ecstatic blurbs, it might well be the debut of the year. A feral fairy tale of maternal dissatisfaction, it’s best to go into this one knowing as little possible, the better to let Yoder work her devious magic on you.
"Nightbitch" is a Kafkaesque novel, and the plot is hard to describe: It involves a multilevel marketing scheme, some intense suburban moms, and a book about mythical women — but don't let that deter you. It's filled with wickedly smart observations and hilarious — and heartbreaking — moments. "Nightbitch" made this mother of young children feel more seen or heard than I have in years. —Sarah Gelman
The narrator of Rachel Yoder's electric debut novel — which is already slated for an adaptation starring Amy Adams — asks the age-old question: Am I struggling with new motherhood, or am I turning into a dog? (July 20)