Articles 5(ish) Questions: Holly Gleason and “Woman Walk the Line: How the Women of Country Music Changed Our Lives” The editor of the new anthology talks about the joys of being subversive and using country music to talk about female empowerment November 9, 2017 Kari Howard “Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” —Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," 1792. November 8, 2017 Kari Howard 5(ish) Questions: Patsy Sims and “The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists” The anthology, which includes Joan Didion and Lillian Ross, puts a deserved spotlight on female writers (and perhaps will give Gay Talese a few ideas when he's next asked about… November 7, 2017 Kari Howard For Halloween week, supernatural podcasts and the haunting of Joan Didion A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure November 3, 2017 Kari Howard The Joan Didion documentary: a nephew’s loving portrait of “a cool customer” The Netflix film is touching but not sentimental, revealing her ability to be a seemingly dispassionate observer -- as a reporter and also a grieving widow November 2, 2017 Kari Howard This American Afterlife: Aaron Mahnke and the spooky podcast (and TV show) “Lore” The creator of the hugely popular true-life scary stories talks about his love for the supernatural and getting listeners to follow him down dark tunnels October 31, 2017 Julia Shipley “Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood, and so can’t rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.” —Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" October 30, 2017 Kari Howard Nikole Hannah-Jones on reporting about racial inequality: “What drives me is rage” At the Power of Storytelling conference, the writer talks about Charlottesville and entrenched racism that reaches back 400 years in America October 26, 2017 Kari Howard “Along with these tots and second-honeymooners, there were Harvard freshmen … “ —John Updike, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, October 22, 1960. October 25, 2017 Kari Howard 5(ish) Questions: Ted Genoways and his year-long embed on a family farm In the book "This Blessed Earth," the writer and his wife, photographer Mary Anne Andrei, give voice to the Americans who provide the food we eat October 19, 2017 Julia Shipley Previous 1 … 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 … 243 Next
