Ah, yes, that tricky "F" word. The one at the start of some of the great academic discourse happening today. We are talking, of course, about fiction. The fiction that helped generations formulate ...

Being a feminist was already exhausting. And then the American government decided to bring openly hating women, immigrants, and people of color back into vogue. I know it's tempting to crawl under the ...

There’s never a bad time to start your feminist library. If you’re looking for books that will get you impassioned, inspired, and educated, look no further. But many of the older feminist classics ...

Some of today's best feminist theologians are writing fiction. I do not refer to their erudite, critical analyses of texts and concepts as novels. Rather, I alert readers to their new excursus into ...

Marleen S. Barr, ed. Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xii + 323 pp. $65 cloth; $22.95 paper.

The conceit of this column is simple: I write about books I’m reading. New, old, obscure, overrated — whatever’s on the nightstand is fair game. So while most weeks are devoted to new releases or ...

I was 11 years old when I set up my first fan fiction account online — for a self-insert Harry Potter fic, because of course. I was technologically incompetent and had no idea what the difference ...

Matthew Klam’s new novel “Who is Rich?” is a contemporary masterpiece. He’s got a gimlet eye for the way men look at women, writes sex with such verisimilitude you might think you’ve slept with him, ...

On Saturday, Oct. 26, a community gathered around a large, knotted, yellow-leaved 250-year-old oak tree in the edible ...