Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”
"Good and Mad" uses several prisms for revealing the nuances of women’s anger in the second decade of the 21st century....
Roland Barthes and the Urgency of Nuance
Philip Sayers on the difficulty and importance of recovering Roland Barthes’s engagement of the neutral in our political moment....
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."...
Politics of Hate
Samuel Huneke reviews Dan Healey’s “Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi,” a look at the development of homophobia as a political strategy in Russia....
The Devils of Our Better Nature: On Dennis Cooper and His New Film
“Permanent Green Light” is the demonic author’s most innocent work....
Taking Responsibility: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
Carley Moore speaks with Sarah Schulman about “Maggie Terry,” Schulman’s new novel about an addict and mother struggling to get her life back together....
Parenting in the Age of Fear: An Interview with Kim Brooks
Kathleen Rooney interviews Kim Brooks about her new book on parenting in the age of fear and the anxieties that attend modern motherhood and fatherhood....
Why We Need Erotica
The close ties between erotic literature and feminism....
The Motion of the Pestle
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."...
“I Wanted It to Be a Comedy”: On “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe”
Clare Davidson and Boyda Johnstone review Austin Pendleton’s “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe.”...
Going for Gold: The Work and Career of Brian Jordan Alvarez
Jonathan Alexander looks at the work and future of DIY internet media impresario Brian Jordan Alvarez as he looks to transition to the big screen....
Popular Feminism: Feminist Flashpoints
This is the fifth installment in a bi-monthly column that will explore some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism....
