Gender & Sexuality

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

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  The Cozy in the Closet: Josh Lanyon’s Holmes and Moriarity Series

  "Christopher Holmes himself, that detective who is not the detective you expect, is out of the closet — and yet still often in its shadow, both actually and metaphorically."

  Noah BerlatskyDec 30, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Noir

• Gender, blah, blah, blah

  The VIDA count makes obvious the problem; we have to fix it.

  Katherine AngelDec 22, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Emotions Doesn’t Change Facts: Remembering Joseph Hansen

  Surely no other major mystery writer has played such an important role in the maturation of another literary genre in a major American city.

  Bill MohrDec 5, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Poetry

• Srsly.

  "Texts from Jane Eyre" Ortberg’s satire matters because it is fantastically able to express women’s anger toward men: men both real, and imagined.

  Sarah MesleNov 6, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• The Art of the Essay

  Essayists on their obsessions with female celebrities.

  Jessica GrossOct 22, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

• Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee

  Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.

  Susannah LuthiOct 13, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • History

  • Nonfiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• Girl Trouble

  Is modern society inherently poisonous to its young women — or is sickness inherent to the condition of being a girl?

  Robin WassermanSep 25, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  This Shirt Won’t Change Your Life: An Interview with Sheila Heti

  Women in Clothes: Women talking to women about women’s relations to women’s clothing.

  Claire LuchetteSep 18, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Into the Wardrobe

  Fashion is a way that women speak to the world, not just a result of the way the world speaks to women.

  Sasha WisemanSep 15, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Nonfiction

• An Almost Unheard Low Note

  An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Lisa L. MooreAug 24, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• America Hates Women

  Bad Feminist brings an inclusive and modulated voice to what has been, at times, a shrill conversation.

  Erika SchickelAug 3, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• “The Hardest Work I Have Ever Done”: “Dropout Piece” by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

  Catherine WagleyJul 23, 2014

  • Art & Architecture

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Gender & Sexuality