Girls Gone Wild

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman, by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Broadway, 210 pp., $22.95)

The plight of the modern accomplished woman: She tries to have it all, and too often ends up both alone and unhappy. This book examines the rise of the new single woman who fails in one relationship after another, whose ring finger remains conspicuously bare despite her obvious attempts to win a diamond.