Some books — not many, but a few — are vastly affected by the moment in which you read them. Not moment in history, or in your life. I mean the exact circumstance in which you sit down and crack the ...
What it means to be an intelligent, political woman two generations after Lessing Doris Lessing’s work united mind, body and feeling. The Children of Violence series featuring Martha Quest, and above ...
What does it mean to be “free” for a woman? This is the question that begins to obsess Lara Feigel during a summer dominated by friends’ weddings. Feigel, a writer and academic, is rereading The ...