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From Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing to Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, the act of racial passing has long…
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Reliving the events of the 2016 election holds little appeal four years after the fact. Donald Trump presidency’s…
Apr 3
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In the opening chapters of Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical, 15-year-old Francisca has just moved from…
Apr 9 2019
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Anybody who knows anything about Jack the Ripper knows this: He killed “streetwalkers” working the roughest area of…
Dec 5 2018
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In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of her 1984 book The Second Shift, sociologist Arlie Hochschild was asked if we had…
May 3 2017
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Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work is an incredibly and almost profoundly boring book. Mercifully, for those of us who…
Mar 30 2017
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In January 1977, I was riding north on the Pacific Coast Highway to interview Joan Didion at her home by the sea. I…
Oct 11 2016
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Though Emma Donoghue is likely best known for Room, her 2010 best-selling novel turned film, she more commonly…
Oct 5 2016
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Saying there’s a new book about the Mitford sisters is a bit like sharing the breaking news that the sun rose again. …
Nov 10 2015
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While I was reading Khloé Kardashian’s book Strong Looks Better Naked in a Brooklyn café, the person sitting across…
Nov 5 2015
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Oct 27 2015
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In her 81 years on Earth, including a long former career as a journalist, Gloria Steinem has only written six books,…
Jul 20 2015
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The final tableau of To Kill A Mockingbird has always given me a sour feeling toward the book—it ends with the black…
Mar 6 2015
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A reminder: while Franny and Zooey is now considered quite the classic, it wasn't always looked at that way, and one…
Feb 2 2015
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There is no feeling quite like reading Bill Cosby's Love and Marriage in January 2015.
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I excel at avoiding the ubiquitous—push notifications, Knausgaard; libertarians, pumpkin spice—and as a result I…
Oct 8 2010
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Sara Marcus's Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution is a history of a group of young, punk…
Sep 1 2010
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Cordelia Fine's thorough (and funny!) Delusions of Gender punches a giant hole in the idea that women's brains are…
Jul 20 2010
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Rachel Shukert's new memoir Everything Is Going To Be Great does something unfortunately rare in women's writing:…
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Chastened, Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about her year of celibacy, reveals a deep confusion about how to live and…