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‘Naked I Come, Naked I Go’ by Marilyn Chin

Poem:

‘Naked I Come, Naked I Go’ by Marilyn Chin

‘Not a landscape for the unassertive’

Zainab Salbi: Women, Wartime and the Dream of Peace

Video:

Zainab Salbi: Women, Wartime and the Dream of Peace

‘Really, this all started seven years ago with a toothbrush, a twig, and a tampon…’

‘The Grand Lady of My Soul’ by Goli Taraghi

Short story:

‘The Grand Lady of My Soul’ by Goli Taraghi

If Pop art by women artists was hardly ever simply Pop, what was it?

‘Cleopatra: A Life’ by Stacy Schiff

Book excerpt:

‘Cleopatra: A Life’ by Stacy Schiff

‘Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period’ by Stephen Marche

Interactive novel:

‘Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period’ by Stephen Marche

‘Clay’ by James Joyce

Classic short story:

‘Clay’ by James Joyce

Marina Warner: Helen of Troy

‘This heroine is no ordinary tycoon or gold-digger. She’s the Pope.’

Perversion be damned

‘The spread of “Ms.” over the past forty years both simplifies and complicates the title paradigm.’

Too Hot Not To Go Viral

“Woman to Woman”

Forget marriage, what’s more fun than falling madly in love with a piece of real estate?

‘Television viewers will accept a Larry King, but not the female equivalent.’

‘A slut needs a posse who finds her exploits almost as delicious as she finds them herself…’

‘You would look in vain for graphic sex scenes in literature from the Hebrew Bible through Homer and Ovid and up to Les Liasons Dangereuses’

Love is love, adventure is adventure, sex is sex. So why do bookstores still have a “Gay/Lesbian” section?