Women We Read This Week
Margarita Gokun Silver’s “Right on Track” in Aeon I once took a train from Virginia to Louisiana because it seemed like less of a…
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Women We Read This Week
Suki Kim’s “The Reluctant Memoirist” in The New Republic Where is the line between first-person investigative journalism and memoir and who gets to decide?…
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Women We Read This Week
Megan Stephan’s “Portable and Infinitely Useful” on Public Books I thoroughly enjoyed and whole-heartedly related to this fabulous essay on the significance of books…
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Rachel Klein’s “The Other Side: Reflections on Motherhood at the Holocaust Museum” in The Toast Upon returning to the Holocaust Museum in D.C., writer…
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Claudia Rankine’s “Her Excellence: What Serena Williams Means to Us” in The New York Times Magazine About halfway into this profile, we hear from…
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Amanda Giracca’s “The art of butchery” on Aeon Full disclosure: Amanda Giracca is a Vela contributing editor, and a friend of mine from the…
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Women We Read This Week
Anna Whiston-Donaldson on a son’s death; Michelle Herman on her father’s death; Ann Bauer on adjuncting; Heather Havrilesky on prayer.
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Women We Read This Week
Stephanie Sinclair’s “Child, Bride, Mother” in The New York Times On June 18th, 2007 I wrote in my journal: “She had a C-section and…
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Amy Klein’s “Fertility Fog” on Aeon Early on in this piece, Klein recounts a conversation with her doctor. “I’d been in the woman’s office…
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Irina Reyn’s “The Photograph” in Brain, Child In the Facebook era, the absence of public documentation of certain events in one’s life speaks as…
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Rachel Riederer’s “The Teaching Class” in Guernica I read Riederer’s piece about a month ago, and though at first it didn’t stand out to…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “Resegregation in the American South” in The Atlantic Focusing on the experiences of three generations of Tuscaloosa, Alabama residents, Nikole Hannah-Jones paints…
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