Why an Anthology on Reproductive Freedom Is Needed Now
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, twenty-four states could immediately prohibit abortion.
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...moreAnna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
...moreAs soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
...moreJennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
...moreShe wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...moreMust be eighteen or older, or Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend.
...moreLet’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
...moreLimón’s ability to express her speaker’s connection to the earth, her desire to bring forth life in all its forms, is breathtaking.
...morePoet Erin Hoover discusses her debut collection, BARNBURNER.
...moreI imagined myself from the outside: the picture of a woman waiting.
...moreI think fresh semen smells like aspirin, which is made from a mold that grows on birch trees, which of course are phallic.
...moreMeeting that freemartin was a revelation for me: justification for my off-gender mannerisms and body, another creature bridging the space between male and female.
...moreLaurette Folk discusses her new collection, Totem Beasts, the role of meditation and dreams in her work, and “seeking some heightened experience in the conscious world.”
...moreMaggie Smith discusses her new collection Good Bones, how motherhood has changed her writing, and what it felt like to have a poem go viral.
...moreOur country has always been ruled by and for the privileged, but never has this glaring injustice in the system been made so shamelessly clear.
...moreFor the rest of this month, Granta will be publishing the winners of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, awarded to five writers from five regions of the globe, with the mission to connect storytellers across cultures through the power of fiction. This week’s featured winner is “Drawing Lessons” by Anushka Jasraj, from the Asia […]
...moreShanthi Sekaran discusses her new novel, Lucky Boy, where fraught issues like immigration and infertility—and the lives they impact—intersect.
...moreBelle Boggs discusses The Art of Waiting about navigating through the difficulties of conception and fertility treatment.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Monica Youn about her new collection Blackacre, hypothetical tracts of land, Milton, and infertility.
...moreIn the New York Times, Rachel Cusk takes on two new memoirs about infertility and the quest for motherhood to explore the wholly compelling “half-analogy between the writing student and the woman embarking on in vitro fertilization.” Julia Leigh’s Avalanche relates six years of the author’s trying and ultimately failing to get pregnant; Belle Boggs, in The Art of Waiting, […]
...moreWe will never be an exclamation point, an ellipses, a question mark. We must all leave with this: a period—solid, and utterly irrefutable.
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