Books
Memoir "Waiting to be Heard" Shows a Real, But Defensive, Amanda Knox
For four years, reporters swarmed the ancient Italian town of Perugia, wrestling one another like dogs to be the first to break each rumor in the titillating murder case of British woman Meredith Kercher. In the vapid analysis of most news bites, headline painted roommate Amanda Knox as a perfect... Read more »
A Letter from Cheryl Strayed: "It Takes Guts."
Dear Friends, I wrote recently, on Twitter, that I was getting the word “feminist” tattooed on my ass. I was only joking, but I might as well have been serious. It’s true that in all the most important things I am—mother, writer, hiker, wife, daughter, seeker—feminism is at the... Read more »
YA Book "What's Left of Me" is a Dystopian Take on Nationalist Fervor
“If you see something, say something” has been the slogan for buses, trains, and airports since 9/11. It’s been used to justify increased surveillance and targeting of Muslims and people from the Middle East. After the Boston bombing, we’ve seen it used to ... Read more »
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: An Interview with Child-Free Comedian Jen Kirkman
Traditional family life has long been fodder for stand-up comedy—but jokes about life as a child-free woman are a less-charted terrain.
Luckily, we have comedian Jen Kirkman to lead the way. Kirkman, a writer and regular performer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and “After Lately,” recently released a... Read more »
Interview with Author of New Book "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"
Anton DiSclafani’s new novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (coming out on June 4 from Riverhead books), tells the Depression Era... Read more »
"Seeing Like a Feminist" Book Should Be Required College Reading.
Some books are easy to read, yet stay with you long after you’ve finished the last chapter. Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin/Zubaan, 2012) is a timely work that explains a... Read more »
How "The Great Gatsby" Fears the Flapper.
Have you heard? There’s a new swell in town named Gatsby, and he’s bringing flapper flair back into fashion.
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Who Was Anne Boleyn?
Susan Bordo is one of the most acute and lively chroniclers of our time. Whether she takes to task the male body (in her aptly named book The Male Body) or female body image (... Read more »
Reading "Tankborn"— A YA Book About Race, Class, and Caste
In Karen Sander’s dystopian young adult book Tankborn, the world is a stringent caste system where race and origins determine all status. Tankborn was a... Read more »
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