Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can Women–and Men–Have it All?
“Let’s make the feminist revolution, a humanist revolution. As whole human beings we will be better caregivers and breadwinners…the revolution for human equality is happening…how far…
“Let’s make the feminist revolution, a humanist revolution. As whole human beings we will be better caregivers and breadwinners…the revolution for human equality is happening…how far…
Plato’s main aim was less to teach than to show how you don’t know what you really think you know. The brilliant and provocative Rebecca Newberger…
Taboos, Pinker says, certainly served (and serves) a purpose in human societies, in general by keeping one connected to the tribe through a shared sets of…
“Chance favors the connected mind.” How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Steven Johnson’s fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles…
The long gangly arms, the large head still barely containing the wide-set eyes, one almost always set off askance. Julio Cortazar was an imposing presence. Probably…
My recent “discovery” of Clarice Lispector was like striking gold. It’s funny the way these arcane writers are becoming increasingly known. I won’t dare say popular.…
Should all “potential” literature become “realized”? Well, no. And that’s one of the subtler explorations such a group as the 1960-founded Oulipo spends time considering. Many Subtle…
Georges Perec seems to be coming into a kind of fashion here at the top end of the 21st century. The under-translated OuLiPian Parisian created remarkable constraints…
It’s not about the bike anymore, no. It’s not even about character flaws from the loss of a healthy father figure in his life. And you…
Will Barry Hannah’s death prompt the sort of popularity that largely eluded him in life–as it does for so many writers? Louis Bourgeois has done his part,…