Women We Read This Week
Sarah Stillman’s “Kidnapped at the Border” in The New Yorker Sarah Stillman has done it again. The young-enough-to-make-you-feel-really-bad-about-your-accomplishments staff writer at The New…
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Women We Read This Week
Molly Lambert’s “Porntopia” in Grantland When my Twitter feed started blowing up with links to Molly Lambert’s long look at the AVN Awards, the…
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Listing the Unlisted
Over the past week, dozens of people — men and women — have taken Vela’s #listtheunlisted challenge, naming all of the women writers they…
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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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Women We Read This Week
Rafia Zakaria’s “The War, The Women, and the Vaccine” on Warscapes If you don’t know Rafia Zakaria yet, you should. She writes from Pakistan,…
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Women We Read This Week
Helen Hayward’s “My children, my life,” in Aeon Magazine In this thought-provoking personal essay, Hayward challenges the assumption that a woman can’t dedicate herself…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Suzanne Richardson’s “Oh Niagara!”, winner of The Journal‘s 2012 Nonfiction…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life I asked for and received…
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Women We Read This Year: Best of 2012
The month of December had barely begun when the Best Of lists began to pop up in my Twitter feed. Best Albums, Best Films,…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read online this week. Eva: Pamela Colloff’s “The Innocent Man,” in Texas Monthly. I…
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