Since Donald Trump ascended to the Oval Office in spite of his crude “locker-room talk”, masculinity has been a hot topic. As three new books demonstrate, the causes and consequences…
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I was never one to stage weddings in the Barbie Dream House, preferring to play with my Star Wars figures and GI Joes. It surprised everyone, then, when I was…
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The essayist Rebecca Solnit opens her memoir with an emblematic image: a picture of her writing desk, a dainty Victorian vanity given to her by a friend who nearly bled to…
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In Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders, the social historian Jane Robinson — whose previous books include histories of suffragettes and bluestockings — champions British women who were ‘first-footers’ in…
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literary journalism sex & genderHappy ever after: why writers are falling out of love with marriage
Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic Little Women begins with an adult Jo March entering the smoke-filled, man-filled offices of a New…
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For Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began in 1963 — “between the end of the Chatterley ban /And The Beatles’ first LP”. The 1960 Old Bailey verdict that had…