Women We Read This Week
1. Sarah Smarsh’s “How political nuance could save America” in The Guardian If you have not been reading Sarah Smarsh, start ASAP. Allow me…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Monroe’s “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement” for The New Yorker Years ago, when my husband and I were traveling around the West…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Aviv’s “The Trauma of Facing Deportation” for The New Yorker A deeply disturbing, fascinating account of uppgivenhetssyndrom, or “resignation syndrome,” an illness striking refugee…
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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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Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid
Recently, I was in New York City to do some publicity, and I was staying in a Holiday Inn in the Gowanus Canal of Brooklyn where the elevator shook and moaned every time we went to our tenth floor room as though the shaft were too small and the elevator was just barely squeezing through.
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Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “It Took Being in an Abusive Relationship to Make Me Understand the Importance of Access to Abortion” in Elle Jessica Pishko adds…
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Women We Read This Week
Dawn Lundy Martin’s “Weary Oracle” in Harper’s Days after I read Dawn Lundy Martin’s “Weary Oracle,” I still found its terse images prying into…
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Women We Read This Week
Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s “All Good Science Fiction Begins This Way” in The Los Angeles Review of Books In a beautiful, lyrical essay, Contreras explains…
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Women We Read This Week
Dao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People Dao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People is one of those…
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Women We Read This Week
Laurie Penny’s “Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged” in the New Statesman Laurie Penny is excellent here on the…
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Women We Read This Week
Brooke Jarvis’ “The Messengers” in Pacific Standard In the latest issue of Pacific Standard, Brooke Jarvis writes about a photographer and filmmaker who’s spent…
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Women We Read This Week
Sarah M. Broom’s “The Yellow House” in The New Yorker It’s the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this month, so a lot of stories…
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