Not an Ike and Tina Thing
He broke the news in the morning, on Labor Day weekend, daylight thinning the walls of our tent at 9am.
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The Tiny Mechanisms of the Gender Gap
The 2013 VIDA count has arrived – it’s a mixture of good news and bad – and its arrival has me thinking back to something I noticed over the holidays…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Mac McClelland’s “Is PTSD Contagious?” in Mother Jones Mac McClelland…
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Bummer, Dude.
Yesterday, Outside editorial director Alex Heard tweeted a shot of the magazine’s new cover, and asked, “What do you think? Beautiful? Or too much?”…
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Falling Hard in New Orleans
In the beginning, you were angry. When The Other Girl first tracked you down and you went to that yuppie bar on Magazine St. and the truth…
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Byline Gender Gap: Canadian Prisons Edition
The National Post has offered up a short list of the most popular book purchases in Canada’s corrections system. You ready for this? They…
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Undermining Molly Ringwald
The line comes near the end of the paragraph. Reviewer Jessica Pressler has finished eviscerating actor-turned-travel writer Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir, The Longest Way…
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Three Kites on the Ice
The water in the fjord was flat and clear, the pale, sheer blue of a mountain river. Icebergs were scattered across its surface…
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The Air-Conditioned Traveler
It was December 2001. I was visiting Malaysia – more specifically, on this particular afternoon I was visiting the covered Central Market…
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Desert Solitaire Blues
I picked up the book on my first morning in Utah, in a small Bureau of Lands Management visitors center on the side of Highway 89.
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Mush!
There’s a story that circulates in Haines, Alaska, a small town hemmed in by year-round snowcaps and cold, clear, fish-rich waters on the northern edge of the Inside Passage.
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Acapulco Nights
I don’t like to say that I’ve been to Mexico. It’s not a lie – I have spent a small amount of time on Mexican soil.
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