Women We Read This Week
S. Isabel Choi’s “Her Prayer” in Ninth Letter It takes a supremely talented writer to build up suspense to an event that the reader…
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Trauma Is Like a Snakebite
What comes out of my mouth is the cry a dog makes after being hit by a car, a shrill whimper.
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Women We Read This Week
“In Full Flight:” Aditi Sriram interviews Helen Macdonald on Guernica H is for Hawk is a memoir that clings like low-hanging fog. Long after…
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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
Anna Merlan’s “Ghost Child: The Strange, Misunderstood World of Delusional Pregnancy” on Jezebel For some reason I started reading this just before I went…
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Women We Read This Week
Rachel Sturtz’s “Unprotected” in Outside Colorado-based Rachel Sturtz spent a year investigating this story, about USA Swimming’s handling of coaches who sexually abuse and…
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Women We Read This Week
Lizzy Goodman’s “Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star” in The New York Times Magazine On the surface, this is a well-done profile of unexpected…
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Women We Read This Week
Ruth Fowler’s “The Loneliest and Saddest Kind” on Guernica It was fitting that I should find Ruth Fowler‘s essay this week, as I was…
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