Women We Read This Week
Svetlana Alexievich’s “On the Battle Lost” on NobelPrize.org “The road to this podium has been long–almost forty years, going from person to person, from…
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Derecka Purnell’s “A New Civil Rights Movement is Already Growing at the Grass Roots” in The New York Times As a country we like…
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Meaghan 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…
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Patsy Sims’ “No Twang of Conscience Whatever” in Oxford American In “No Twang of Conscience Whatever,” Patsy Sims investigates the 1964 murders of civil…
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Sara Bernard’s “Rape Culture in the Alaskan Wilderness” in The Atlantic Sara Bernard‘s piece in The Atlantic this week is a feat of reporting…
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Rachele Kanigel’s “The Shadow Sex” in San Francisco magazine On November 4 of last year, Fleischman, who identifies as agender—neither male nor female—was set…
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Rose Lichter-Marck’s “Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women” in The New Yorker Vivian Maier worked as a nanny in Chicago between the…
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Rachel Monroe’s “Fire Behavior” in Oxford American Read enough literary journalism and it becomes easy to trace the intentions and arguments of a piece…
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