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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s M...

This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante and eventual editor Thomas Wentw...

[Maybe more often than most…]

Maybe more often than most she buys mirrors.The pseudo-Biedermeier at the flea market—over its workaday planking a veneer of nicer wood. Nested chevronswhose tips center the breast...

Nicole Krauss: On the strangeness of pledging allegiance to the flag

An irreconcilable sense of alienation and belonging has been one of America’s many gifts to me

Essential Picture Books About Girls Using Their Voice

   Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop once explained children’s literature as serving two functions: mirrors and windows. Some books are like […] The post Essential Picture Books About Girls U...

Blue thinks itself within me by Kim Trainor

Full of a variety of works of art and poetry, slices of history, theories, and anecdotes of Trainor’s activism, all sections weave source material and personal experience back to t...

The Five Questions That Separate Who You Are From the Roles You Play

Why capable women lose their voice gradually — and how to find it againContinue reading on Threads Of Life. »

How to Love the World by Ilka Tampke review – a woman is trapped by a fallen tree

The stuck narrator records the minutiae of the forest and her harrowing life in a purposeful novel that demands a slow read but doesn’t always reward itA large branch falls to the...

Five Novels About Haunted Girls

There is nothing quite as eerie and laced with danger as growing up a girl. Even if you don’t realize it yourself at the time, the world around you will let you know by treating yo...

Enter Man

Makenna Goodman’s new novel, Helen of Nowhere, offers up an exhilarating myth for men who need to be shuffled offstage.

Sophie Mackintosh on Writing Taboo Subjects and Cultivating a Voice In Her Infidelity Novel, Permanence

Book Talks: How Sophie Mackintosh Writes Desire, Betrayal and Consequences

I went to a theatre production with one audience member in a Pitlochry garden and left with a mystery bracelet

Sharron Devine is a classically-trained actor

Revisiting “Silence of the Lambs” in the Age of Trans Backlash

Sometimes you are reading a book—not even one by a well-known transphobic children’s author—and are struck, halfway through or near the end, by a bit of transphobia. Sometimes it’s...

Brave Girls, Bad Witches: Age, Agency, and Anxiety in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia by Elanur Williams

In the landscape of mid-twentieth-century children’s literature, C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia initially appears remarkably progressive. Long before modern fantasy embraced...

Poem: Inherited Embodiment 

I never met the woman who made you.  I have been piecing her together —  tracing the silhouette of a memory   brilliant enough to produce you.  We never met but  we moved through t...

My Process On Writing Complex Female Characters Worthy Of Both Love And Scrutiny

By Anne Shaw Heinrich One of the things I enjoy most about interacting with people, observing them up close and from afar, is knowing that I don’t have the full story on anyone. No...

Identity, Belonging, and the Ultimate Paradox

Annabelle "Bee" Baumann on Bee vs The Village - A Black Comic in Germany The post Identity, Belonging, and the Ultimate Paradox appeared first on Everything Theatre.

Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power

This heartfelt story of attraction and friendship, shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction, is sensitively read by Dan BottomleyThe debut novel from Rozie Kelly – shortlisted...

Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp

“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”

What Is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds

“For the past twenty-five years, she has waged a sustained assault on the ideology of poetic sincerity.”

Mirrors, Mishaps, Time Machines: Approaching Self Through Other

We aren’t given much room as we grow to decide for ourselves who we want to be—often, ideas from others shape us before we even fully glimpse ourselves. The first recognition of th...

Writing as Advocacy: Mustering the Courage to be Bold, Brave, and Direct

By Margaret Anne Mary Moore Even now, I wonder if I’m too bold in my writing, if readers may misinterpret why I put forth certain ideas, certain arguments. The more I sit with thes...

Inspirations, Associations, and Kindred Spirits

The bestselling author of Baseball Life Advice, Stacey May Fowles returns with the honesty, humour, and heart that readers love in a memoir exploring infertility, motherhood, menta...

My Prairie Books

I write because I like writing. I like words and sentences. I like thinking about people. I want to understand the wicked as well as the good and the often mistaken majority in bet...