Odd Women
George Gissing’s novel captured our two-steps-forward, one-step-back journey to the “new” woman and man.
Winter 2024
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Symposium 1968: Vivian Gornick 
At an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) conference held in the spring of 1967, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, and the San Francisco hippie group “the Diggers” burst into the middle of Tom Hayden’s keynote speech, screaming that the people …
The Second Sex at Fifty
This year The Second Sex turns fifty. Now deep into my own middle age, I reread the book in the wake of thirty years of thought and feeling much influenced by its steady presence among us and I find, turning …
