Books
Remarkable Acts: Han Kang's latest novel pays tribute to those killed in the Gwangju Uprising
Throughout the book, Han raises the question of what it is that allows groups of people to commit such remarkable acts—both of violence and of bravery.
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My President Loves to Read
When Obama talks about the power and meaning that he has gleaned from books, I hear the words of every person I’ve ever known who loves to read.
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Stars Within Our Reach: Dava Sobel's Latest Book Honors the women of the Harvard College Observatory
The Glass Universe reads like a series of biographies linked by science and women’s rights, and its stories span more than a century.
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Off the Hook: A Q&A With "American Hookup" Author Lisa Wade
“Students spent a lot of time worrying about whether they were having enough fun, if they were fun people, and if the fun they were having was the ‘right’ kind of fun: raucous, drunken, sexy, and just a tad perilous. Hooking up is the pinnacle of this.”
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Bad Things Milo Yiannopoulos Has Done, In Case His New Publisher Cares (Just Kidding, They Totally Don't Care)
While I wish this book deal was a stunt, a mainstream book publisher actually believes Yiannopoulos’s words are worth publishing.
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Bitch's Best Books of 2016
How many of the Bitch community’s best books of 2016 have you read?
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It’s Jane’s House—We Just Live in It: Brontë, Feminism, and the Gothic Tradition
The themes and tropes Jane Eyre combined so brilliantly—patriarchy and male control, female dopplegangers, and, of course, gothic houses—remain ever-present in literature and popular culture.
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Ambition Condition: Women, writing, and the problem of success
By not owning up to her ambitions—whether they’re in the public or private realms—a writer feeds the machine that discounts the aspirations and talents of all women writers.
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Good Looking Out: Siri Hustvedt's New Essay Collection is an Exercise in Interdisciplinary Curiosity
Hustvedt dispenses with illusions of academic objectivity and doesn’t hesitate to share her thoughts and feelings throughout these pieces.
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2016 Reading Challenge: 50 Books by Women of Color
If you don’t seek out new voices, it’s easy to fall into reading books primarily, if not solely, by white authors.
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