The Worse That Threatens
made no move to turn on the oven or the space heater to warm our apartment. This was part of my morning custom, but…
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Women We Read This Week
Quinn Norton’s “The Land That Never Has Been Yet” on Medium In her most recent piece for Medium, writer Quinn Norton begins with: It’s…
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Women We Read This Week
Donna Seaman’s “Turning out the lights just isn’t going to do it” in Creative Nonfiction In the movie Bang the Drum Slowly, there’s a…
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Women We Read This Week
Ali Smith’s “The Human Claim” at Liberty I love the way Ali Smith writes, so I was happy to find this piece amidst 80…
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On the Far End of Reality: Jennifer Percy’s Demon Camp
Everywhere he went, he saw them, their burned bodies, watching him. These were the days after the war. Demon Camp is not really about…
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Women We Read This Week
Maria Konnikova’s “An Antidote for Mindlessness” on The New Yorker’s Science and Tech “Elements” blog If you practice yoga and meditation, you know the…
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The Grief Book Club
My aunt died recently. Although she was sick and we all knew about it, it was somehow still sudden and shocking. She was diagnosed with HIV…
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Women We Read This Week
Claire Messud interviewed by Alex Clark in The Guardian I’ve come late to Claire Messud: I picked up The Last Life on a whim…
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Summer Reads from Vela
Books by women for the last glorious gasp of summer! Rachel Kushner’sThe Flamethrowers Sure, I was predisposed to like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers. The…
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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On Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby
For almost two years now, I’ve been making a dress. I bought the pattern and a roll of fabric on holiday in Wales, but I didn’t have a sewing machine…
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Two Essential Feminist Reads
Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “My So-Called ‘Post-Feminist’ Life in Arts and Letters” in The Nation I remember sitting in my Craft of Memoir course in…
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