Masculinity is fragile. While it’s only been fairly recently that this fact has been discussed in mainstream discourse, not only does it resonate with many…
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FROM SUFFRAGIST PAMPHLETS to the xeroxed zines of riot grrl, DIY publishing is one of the oldest tricks in the feminist book. Creating and controlling…
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JHUMPA LAHIRI describes her relationship to Italian as a love affair: “When you’re in love, you want to live forever… Reading in Italian arouses a…
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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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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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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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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN finds Virginia Woolf in 1929, trying “to remember any case in the course of [her] reading where two women are…
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Have you ever fallen so deeply in love with a book and its protagonists that, when you turned the last page and finished the story,…
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THEY SAY that laughter is the best medicine; that laughter is the cure for grief. And on the worst of days, when everything that could…
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I realize we’re less than a month in, but Kathleen Hale’s debut novel No One Else Can Have You is the best novel I’ve read…
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