Erin Vanderhoof
Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' Complicates Narratives About Being Fat
The 'Bad Feminist' author's new memoir is about being overweight, and it offers an honest, if unnuanced, attempt to answer a difficult question: How did I become this person?
Women Suck at Being Bosses Just as Much as Men
Former Google and Apple executive Kim Scott's new professional advice book, "Radical Candor," reads as a timely antidote to recent HR scandals at start-ups like Uber and Thinx. But it also inadvertently reveals a gender-neutral truth about the...
Zadie Smith's New Novel Is an Essay on Fame, Identity, and Conspiracy Theories
In "Swing Time," a listless, unnamed narrator tries to figure out who she is in a world of absurd wealth and drastic inequality.
How the Combative Beginning of Women's Studies Shaped Feminist In-Fighting Today
At the West Coast Women's Studies Conference of 1973, scholars in the new academic discipline gathered to discuss sisterhood, survival tactics, and how the conference organizers had marginalized basically everyone. The atmosphere was tense and chaotic...