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Can We Please Just Agree That Women Watch Football Too
I have not written about the World Cup so far, as there’s so much excellent commentary out there and from a personal perspective, I don’t have much to add to what I said two years ago. If I have one observation, it’s that for a great World Cup (and this one ..
Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse and Book Regrets
A good colleague asked me recently how often I regret reading a book. We had a long conversation about it, but the short answer is: almost never. As a quick glance at my Goodreads profile will tell you, this is not because I only read masterpieces. In fact, ..
The A-Word
I cannot really remember the time when I didn’t think about myself as a feminist. There certainly was one: I do recall reading The Second Sex and A Room of One’s Own in my early twenties and being almost shocked by the truths in them, so I cannot have been v..
Caroline Herschel, The Celestial Housekeeper
I love smart, interesting, talented women. I collect them, both in real life and more abstractly (you can see part of my IRL collection here). The latter is especially easy: I can add writers and scientists, artists and sportswomen into my Hall of Fame and t..
Alexandra David-Néel
Let it never be said that nothing good has ever come from drinking very expensive tea. If I had not been exploring the shelves of Mariage Freres the other day, I would probably never have learned about Alexandra David-Néel, a fascinating woman after whom Mar..