MOST PEOPLE EXPERIENCE POEMS as so puzzling and irrelevant that new books of poetry are burdened with the task of proving their right to exist.…
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Just Not Sorry is a new Chrome extension that highlights and removes certain “self-demeaning phrases” from your emails. Among the words to get the boot: “just,”…
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IN THE WORLD OF COMICS, you don’t get much more prestigious than the French lifetime achievement award known as the Angoulême Grand Prix — for…
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ON DECEMBER 29TH, new legislation enacted in the U.K. under the Serious Crime Act established emotional and psychological abuse as criminal offenses. The law attaches…
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MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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I BELIEVE THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER, MORE PEACEFUL PLACE WITH MORE WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER. That being said, I don’t believe that…
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One of the world’s best countries for women has a new immigrant education program that has left many observers on the fence. Norway provides voluntary-participation classes…
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FROM SUGGESTING THAT nobody would want to vote for Carly Fiorina because of her face to his recent disgust at Hillary Clinton’s extended bathroom break,…
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WHEN IT COMES TO THE SEASON OF GIVING, Festivus — today, December 23rd — is one celebration that’s continually overlooked or laughed-off as a joke.…
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IN STARK CONTRAST TO HER 2008 CAMPAIGN STRATEGY, Hillary Clinton is making a strong point of the fact that she’s a woman this time around.…
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BACK IN SEPTEMBER, I wrote a piece in which I argued that the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” are too polarizing to foster a constructive conversation…
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THERE’S A NEW FORM OF SEXISM RUNNING RAMPANT IN THE LITERARY COMMUNITY. Named for Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel, The Goldfinch, the Goldfinching phenomenon occurs when a…
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