On Being 40(ish): Fifteen Writers on the Prime of Their Lives

Fifteen powerful women and writers you know and love-from the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, and The Atlantic-offer captivating, intimate, and candid explorations about what it's really like turning forty-and that the best is yet to come.

The big 4-0. Like eighteen and twenty-one, this is a major and meaningful milestone our lives-especially for women. Turning forty is a poignant doorway between youth and...what comes after; a crossroads to reflect on the roads ...