Ha Jin Revisits Nanjing’s Rape

“Doing what can’t be done is the glory of living.” When American missionary Minnie Vautrin cites this old Quaker saying to an admirer in Ha Jin’s Nanjing Requiem, she means to be humble, ...Read More

As Newsrooms Downsize, Is Diversity Doomed?

By Susan McHenry Amy Alexander has amassed the credentials to be called, in the parlance of 21st century digital media, “an award-winning content producer,” as she’s described on the cover of ...Read More

Fragmented By Abuse, But Not Broken

By Nada L. Stotland On a very bad day, every one of us has wished we were somewhere else or someone else. Some unfortunate children have many more, and much worse, bad days; they are physically, ...Read More

Sex, Doves and the Divine Feminine: Alice Hoffman’s The Dovekeepers

By Jessica Stites The Fall of Masada is one of the most incredible real-life David-and-Goliath stories ever recorded. After the Roman sacking of Jerusalem in the year 70, about 900 Jews took refuge ...Read More

For Fans of Ntozake Shange, Finally, A Memoir

Ntozake Shange, feminist author of the critically acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who’ve considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous poetry collections and novels (most ...Read More

Frances Moore Lappe’s Grand Vision: Treat Markets as Ecosystems

The latest book from environmentalist Frances Moore Lappé–author of the bestselling Diet for a Small Planet–could not have been published at a better time. As Occupy protests across the ...Read More

What Does a “Young Feminist” Icon Have To Say at 40? F’Em!

Jennifer Baumgardner came to fame in 2000 with Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, cowritten with Amy Richards. Defining a “third wave” of feminism, Manifesta proved its staying ...Read More

Canada’s Latest Literary Star Is (Surprise!) Black and Female

In a country that claims hockey, maple syrup and a turpentine-flavored cough medicine called Buckley’s as pillars of its national identity, it’s rare to find a black woman at the center of a media ...Read More

Our Bodies, Ourselves Is 40 and Fabulous

Here are the cliff notes to this review of the new Our Bodies, Ourselves: Get this book. Get it because you have always seen it but never opened it. Get it because you have an older version and want ...Read More

Queer History Month: A Chat With Author Lesléa “Heather Has Two Mommies” Newman

In honor of Queer History Month, I want to give a shout out to Lesléa Newman, an iconic yet under-recognized gay Jewish writer whose work continues to inform the changing landscape of GLBT rights ...Read More

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