Women We Read This Week
Pauline Campos’s “A Mexican-American in Maine Responds to Governor LePage” in The Fix Earlier this year, Maine’s governor Paul LePage made multiple racist remarks…
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Sarah Galo’s “Up in Arms, Sarah Galo Interviews Molly Crabapple” in Guernica I can’t get enough of artist and journalist Molly Crabapple and her…
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Michelle Robertson’s “Recovery Season” in Orion Magazine This essay is a quiet, sincere meditation on how the author’s eating disorder affects her relationship with…
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Molly Brodak’s “Bandit” in Granta Molly Brodak tells the story of her father, a gambler and bank robber who was an enigmatic, pervasive presence…
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“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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Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil’s “Everything is Yours, Everything is Not Yours” in Matter Wamariya’s and Weil’s essay—about Wamariya fleeing Rwandan genocide, becoming a…
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Amanda Filipacchi’s “How to Pose Like a Man” in The New York Times Much has been said about how women’s writing is packaged and…
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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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Elizabeth Weil’s “What Really Happened to Baby Johan?” on Matter When a child dies, people want answers. Elizabeth Weil gives us a story where…
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Daisy Hernández’s “Latina at the white, male New York Times” in Salon The title of this piece suggests a screed, but what unfolds is…
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Rachel Riederer’s “The Teaching Class” in Guernica I read Riederer’s piece about a month ago, and though at first it didn’t stand out to…
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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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