"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Nina Pasquini reviews Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China.”
Ariella Garmaise reviews Alissa Bennett’s compilation of celebrity-themed zines, collectively titled “Taxidermist’s Handbook.”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians.”
Naomi Pearce talks with K. Patrick about their debut novel, “Mrs. S.”
Sarah Stoller reviews Angela Garbes’s “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” and Peggy O’Donnell Heffington’s “Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother.”
Henry M. J. Tonks explains how Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Big Chill” gets generational politics all wrong—and why we still need to watch it.
Hazem Fahmy reviews “The Kingdom of Surfaces” by Sally Wen Mao.
Dara Rossman Regaignon explores what George Eliot’s Victorian fiction can tell us about the complexities of pregnancy, viability, miscarriage, abortion, and intent.
Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”
Lori Marso explores feeling plastic in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and the works of Chantal Akerman.
Anna Katharina Schaffner reviews Jennifer Banks’s “Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth.”
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Barbara Winslow about her new book “Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle.”
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