The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Why This 1850 Novel About Shame Still Haunts Us Today
The Scarlet Letter is a historical romance set in 1640s Puritan Boston, telling the story of Hester Prynne, a woman … Read more
The Scarlet Letter is a historical romance set in 1640s Puritan Boston, telling the story of Hester Prynne, a woman … Read more
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea review: Emily Wilson’s new collection is far more than a book about translating ancient Greek and … Read more
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell is a blend of cultural criticism, personal memoir, … Read more
Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek is the book that finally breaks … Read more
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is Mona Eltahawy’s 2019 feminist manifesto that tells women to stop apologizing … Read more
In her final essay for The New Yorker, legendary feminist and organizer Gloria Steinem reflects on a lifetime of activism, tracing … Read more
Do you ever wonder why some histories feel incomplete, like entire chapters have been deliberately torn out and burned? Yasmin … Read more
Does the constant stream of sexual images in everyday media leave you wondering how we reached a point where extreme … Read more
Did you know that the woman who founded Australia’s most successful feminist lobby group also defended paedophiles, dismissed rape as … Read more
Did you grow up surrounded by people who talked about spirituality but lived in bad faith? I remember sitting through … Read more
Did you ever question why modern political exhaustion feels so intensely personal? As a reader who regularly navigates the endless … Read more
Did you know that Simone de Beauvoir, the woman who wrote The Second Sex and became the intellectual godmother of … Read more
Did you know that in Afghanistan, a woman’s word in court is worth only half that of a man’s? This … Read more
Does freedom feel more like a burden than a gift? You’re not alone. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity … Read more
Do you ever catch yourself repeating the same painful patterns in relationships, wondering why you’re drawn to people who are … Read more
Do you ever wonder why so many of us feel trapped between what we’ve been taught about sex and marriage … Read more
What makes a young Black girl who stops speaking for nearly a year grow up to become one of the … Read more
Mary Wollstonecraft’s education reform was not a footnote to her feminism — it was her feminism. In A Vindication of … Read more
Why should I ask you to read a difficult feminist classic from 1975 in 2026? Because Against Our Will taught … Read more
Can a minimum-wage job actually sustain a life in America? That’s the deceptively simple question that drove Barbara Ehrenreich to … Read more
Do you ever wonder what remains of you after faith, family, marriage, and community have all told you who you … Read more