Women We Read This Week
1. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Loneliness of Donald Trump” on Lit Hub It gives me so much hope to see Rebecca Solnit rise to the…
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Women We Read This Week
Amanda Giracca’s “Into the Field ” in Orion Magazine By combining vivid and highly detailed scenes from her experience in field biology classes with…
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Women We Read This Week
Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” in Harper’s Solnit’s essay opens, as so many do, with questions—but this one in a literal, external…
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Women We Read This Week: 100th Edition
When we first started Women We Read This Week, we were something very small: a community of six writers, living in different cities throughout…
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Women We Read This Week
Meredith Broussard’s “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” on The Atlantic Forget for a moment the irony of an article critiquing financial…
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On Reading a Killer’s Manifesto
Over Memorial Day weekend, I enjoyed an idyllic three days with friends. When they left on Tuesday, I returned to the world…
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Women We Read This Year: 2013
It’s that time of year, the time of Bests and Mosts and pretty much any superlative you can think of that will fit in…
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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Women We Read This Week
Nicole Pasulka’s “Wanted: Macho Men With Moustaches” in The Believer I never spent a lot of time thinking about the cultural phenomenon of the…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Lauren Westerfield’s “Twenty-Seven” in The Rumpus This essay tackles a…
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On Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby
For almost two years now, I’ve been making a dress. I bought the pattern and a roll of fabric on holiday in Wales, but I didn’t have a sewing machine…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Faraway Nearby” on Guernica I love Rebecca Solnit‘s writing…
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