Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
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‘The Home Is a Place as Wild as Any in the World.’
Chia-Chia Lin talks about the wildness of domestic spaces and writing her novel “The Unpassing” through the early months of motherhood.
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Alternative Reality: ‘Dark Window’
Read about the inclusive beauty of Charleston’s defunct Garden and Gun Club and more, in this installment of the alt weekly reading list.
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Did the Modern Novel Kill Charles Bovary?
Jean Améry, the Austrian essayist and Primo Levi’s former barrack-mate at Auschwitz, wrote one last novel before he died. Its six angry chapters are written as if by Charles Bovary, accusing Flaubert of ruining his life.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
There Is No Other Way To Say This
“Tell them on the outside,” Carolyn Forché’s Salvadoran mentor instructed her. Her memoir is her latest attempt. Its elliptical lyricism, like that of her poetry, runs circles around censorship.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Who Do You Belong To?
When she dipped her heart into someone else’s relationship, Emily Lackey discovered how to define love on her own terms.
Posted inCommentary, Media, Profiles & Interviews
If Tim Russert Could Interview Trump Today
On the tenth anniversary of Tim Russert’s death, one question rings out over the last decade in American politics: What Would Tim Ask?
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Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
During a month hiking Muir’s “Range of Light,” three young women traversed snowy mountain passes, ran out of food, confronted a gendered wilderness, and learned to deal with each other.
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Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie
Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Culture, Current Events, Unapologetic Women
When Will Hip-Hop Have Its #MeToo Reckoning?
It has already, time and time again.
