Extract Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments An exploration of the lives of the first generation of black women born in the US after the abolition of slavery By Saidiya Hartman 30 minute read
Shelfie ‘Books are my most treasured objects’ Shelfie series: The poet, Sabrina Mahfouz, on her love of The Odyssey and the joy of reading in bed. By Sabrina Mahfouz 3 minute read
Q&A A modern witch in an ancient world How Madeline Miller set Circe at the centre of her epic and made Odysseus the cameo. By Madeline Miller and Isobel Kieran 8 minute read
Essay Clever girl What will it take for women to be seen instinctively as natural geniuses? By Angela Saini 11 minute read
Essay Is Sally Rooney the heir to Doris Lessing? And what does it take for a woman to be free? Remembering Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: a writer reflects on feminism and freedom today. By Lara Feigel 8 minute read
Essay The women are revolting! Michelle Jana Chan and Shehnaz Suterwalla on the women who marched to demand their rights By Michelle Jana Chan and Dr Shehnaz Suterwalla 12 minute read
Essay 100 kilos of inner strength Poorna Bell on power lifting and the strength of a woman By Poorna Bell 12 minute read
Essay The faces that launched a thousand ships The women - and goddesses - behind the Trojan War By Natalie Haynes 10 minute read
Essay A Crack in Everything: part 3 Grace McCleen finds new meanings in Marilynne Robinson's work which reflects on accepting the loss of a friend. By Grace McCleen 20 minute read
Essay A Crack in Everything: part 2 In the second part of her series on friendship break-up, one writer explores 'ghosting' in literary fiction. By Grace McCleen 27 minute read