Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries ‘assigned female at birth’ w
Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she
Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e
Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o
Maurice Levaillant | The Passionate Exiles | Historical “dual biography” of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier. Researchers tend not to take the written declarations of love as indications of se
Rebecca O’Rourke | Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness | A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall’s international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinat
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Ariel Gore | The End of Eve | “I remembered what my friend China wrote in her punk parenting zine when we were young moms. I want to be the female Bukowski, the female Burroughs,
