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A Dream Preferred

by Anaïs Nin,

By Anaïs Nin (1903–77), from diary entries written in March 1947 in New York City. Trapeze, an unexpurgated section of Nin’s diaries spanning from 1947 to 1955, was published this…

It Ain’t Me, Babe

From actions committed by women that were cited as constituting “mental cruelty” against their husbands in divorce cases in India since 2014. Mental cruelty is grounds for divorce under the…

The Shaming of The Shrew

by Dubravka Ugresic,

By Dubravka Ugrešic, from an essay that was published in the September/October issue of World Literature Today. Ugrešic is the author of more than a dozen books. She was the…

Trick of the Russian Soul

by Svetlana Aleksievich,

From Secondhand Time, an oral history of post-Soviet Russia compiled by Svetlana Alexievich and published last month by Random House. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in…

Certain Age

by Ottessa Moshfegh, Kristine McKenna,

Dialogue

Signed and Dated

by Erica Boas, Jason A. Laker,

From a relationship contract created by a first-year male undergraduate and signed by him and a girlfriend. The contract is part of ongoing research for Consent Stories, a project by…

Lost Girls

by Sarah Dohrmann,

Women, sex, and the Arab Spring

Shooting Down Man the Hunter

by Rebecca Solnit,

Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It’s a story…

Cassandra Among the
Creeps

by Rebecca Solnit,

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf…

A God More Powerful Than I

by Sam Knight,

Understanding a stalker’s love

Study for Vignette 15

by Kerry James Marshall,