My Late Awakening
The writer leaves her husband after 20 years of marriage to pursue a sexual odyssey. What she discovers about herself—and the world—surprises her more than she expects.
First Person
In Praise of Surrogate Mothers
Losing my mother left a hole in my heart that can never be filled. But from a tragedy came so much love from a group of women whom I'll never forget.
The Invisible Pregnancy
She might not endure physical labor, but the swelling of anticipation is true for this American writer who touchingly tells the story of her international adoption.
Is a Joke Just a Joke When the Pain it Causes Is Real?
One writer mines the suffering of her own captivity to understand the true abhorrence of Joan Rivers’s jokes about Ariel Castro’s victims.
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon: Lessons I Learned
In this excerpt, rock icon Kim Gordon talks about her path from childhood sculptor to Sonic Youth frontwoman to forging on as a solo artist in every sense.
Call It What You Want, But a Rape Is Still a Rape
A woman recounts a sexual encounter with an old flame that she now realizes, years later, was a rape.
I Always Knew I Was a Boy
Born female, a novelist describes a childhood spent searching in earnest for the word that best described who he really was.