
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…
Read Moremade no move to turn on the oven or the space heater to warm our apartment. This was part of my morning custom, but…
Read Moreunch at the Fournets is just as I imagined it would be. Their apartment is tidy but stylish, colorful but understated. The two girls,…
Read MorePenny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
Read MoreI am nearing the end of my first writerly—read, sedentary—summer ever.
Read MoreWhen asked to compose a list of women who write about social class, a parade of female authors marched through my head. The table…
Read MoreIn most parts of life, I’m a fiendish scribbler of lists (to-dos, to-reads, to-repents, etc.), but when it comes to this particular assignment –…
Read MoreMeaghan O’Connell’s “A Birth Story” on Longreads So, Meaghan O’Connell’s “A Birth Story” is a fascinating, horrifying, gripping read just for its bare revelations…
Read MoreOver the past week, dozens of people — men and women — have taken Vela’s #listtheunlisted challenge, naming all of the women writers they…
Read MoreJenny Nordberg’s “The Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys” in The Atlantic At school, Mahnoush is known as Mehran; at work, Niima is called…
Read MoreWhen I was younger I used to fantasize about having a button I could press that would pause the world around me while I caught my breath, had a nap…
Read MoreThe term “female journalist” implies that the gendered modifier is necessary because we assume that a plain old “journalist” is male. As with “male…
Read MoreLizzy Goodman’s “Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star” in The New York Times Magazine On the surface, this is a well-done profile of unexpected…
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