On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography
Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”
On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers
How Contemporary Writers Are Reframing Narratives Around Female Characters
Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels
The Author of Permission In Conversation with Philip Teir
In a Refugee’s No Man’s Land at the Thai-Burmese Border
Pibulsak Lakonpol with a Dispatch from the Far North of Thailand
Juliet Grames on Restoring the Legacies of Our Difficult Grandmothers
The Author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna on The Maris Review
Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History
The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate
Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
"Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water’s edge. The bay snuck up to swallow her toes. Gray salt water over bright skin. “Don’t go out any farther,” Alyona said.The water receded. Alyona could see, under her sister’s feet, the pebbles breaking the curves of Sophia’s arches, the sweep of grit left by little waves. Sophia bent to roll up her pant legs, and her ponytail flipped over the top of her head. Her calves showed flaking streaks of blood from scratched mosquito bites. Alyona knew from the firm line of her sister’s spine that Sophia was refusing to listen."
Page 1292 of 1756
