Every year, the Angoulême Comics Festival awards their Grand Prix to a deserving artist whose body of work or contribution to the art form has been deemed especially significant. Past winners include Bill Watterson, Robert… Read more »

If you’re a Civil War historian, and you’re female, you better both know your bonnets and cite them appropriately from the Encyclopedia of Civil War Bonnetry and Bonnetology, 6th edition.… Read more »

It’s fun to pretend that we live in a post-gender world, where we only judge each other based on inner light and comedic timing—but it’s more fun by far when… Read more »

Sometime last year, I pinned a sheet of paper above my desk with the title “Women Writers” and began forming a list of names of female writers that I had… Read more »

When critic and writer Suzanne Rivecca wrote an essay for the Rumpus a couple of weeks ago about the way male critics tend to write about Mary Gaitskill’s work —which… Read more »

Alex Shephard: Hello Dustin, you “real heterosexual guy,” you. Read any good books lately? Dustin Kurtz: Aw, Alex, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. I must say,… Read more »

The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books must be holding a secret competition, like the “quiet game” my parents encouraged me to play as a kid… Read more »

Women face a deeply double pressure to please, to be likable—to be made of suger, spice, and everything nice. In the world of fiction, that pressure falls on their characters.… Read more »

Oh, Wikipedia! You encyclopedic embodiment of the male gaze, look what you’ve done now. The category “American Novelists” includes virtually no women. Attempting to contain the expanding category, Wikipedia editors recently created… Read more »

Well done, women readers, for getting all the way here using just your fluffy ladybrains. Aren’t you clever? If only you were French, you’d have had the help of this indispensable… Read more »