Tagged: women and literature

Zadie Smith Helps Us Find Our Light in Swing Time

Zadie Smith is a British-born literary sensation. A novelist, short story writer, and essayist, she has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, been on Granta’s list of the top 20 young writers, and now teaches in the Creative Writing program at New York University.

Review: Trans poet’s book succubus in my pocket

succubus in my pocket is a book of experimental poetry by the late, great trans poet kari edwards (1954-2006). In the foreword, edwards — she preferred her name, as well as the book’s title, in lower case — is described as one of transgender literature’s “driving forces and homing beacons.”

Review: The Vegetarian by Han Kang

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…

Review: In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

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…

Unicorn Days: The Last Feminist Bookstores in the US

SAD BUT TRUE: feminist businesses are becoming as rare as unicorns. Sure, we have Girlbosses and female CEOs who like to Lean In, but down…

How Sexist Critics Exclude Women From Literature

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…

Why We Need To Be Talking About “Women’s Fiction”

IN THE LATE 1990S, a new genre took the fiction world by storm. It was called “chick lit,” and it was fabulous. If Gen-Xers wanted to…

We Choose Art: Working Toward Gender Equality

It seems that L.A. has been bursting at the seams with feminist-minded events this month — there’s been no dearth of workshops, community gatherings, women’s…

#WCW: Jennifer Jones as Emma Bovary in the 1949 adaptation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.