Lacy M. Johnson’s Five Essayists
This past October the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked, “Is This a Golden Age for Women Essayists?”
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Women We Read This Week
Gina Frangello’s “Did My Best Friend Really Know Me?” in DAME Gina Frangello’s most recent novel, A Life in Men, was (despite its title)…
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Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “Marrying a Monster” in Narratively Why would a woman marry a man, nearly half her age, who’d murdered three times? A man…
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Sonya Huber’s Eight Midwestern Books
I have a bias toward Midwestern culture, partly because I’m from New Lenox, Illinois, a former farm town in the greater amorphous magical region…
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Sarah Stillman’s Six Reporters to Follow
In most parts of life, I’m a fiendish scribbler of lists (to-dos, to-reads, to-repents, etc.), but when it comes to this particular assignment –…
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Women We Read This Week
Roxane Gay’s “The Price of Black Ambition” in VQR Roxane Gay is having a moment. Her moment, to be exact. With two books—the novel…
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Women We Read This Week
Alice Bolin’s “The Oldest Story: Toward a Theory of a Dead Girl Show,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books I like True Detective…
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Women We Read This Week
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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