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Do you apologize when you bump into a lamppost? I suspect only women do this. Girls are raised to be polite and deferential, as we know too well, but as [...]

Rae Armantrout writes spare, spiky poems that make you sit up and think. She writes a lot of them, too: almost twenty books so far. Versed (2010) won the National [...]

This article discusses about the type of books to be assigned for students and type of books to be discussed by critics. In that other country of real readers-voluntary, active, self-determined readers-a debate like the current one over the canon would not be taking place. Everyone would know that the top-ten list was merely a tiny fraction of the books one would read in a life-time. It would not seem racist or sexist or hopelessly hidebound to put Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist on the syllabus and not Toni Morrison. School might frankly be the place where one read the books that are a little off-putting, that have gone a little cold, that you might pass over because they do not address, in reader-friendly contemporary fashion, the issues most immediately at stake in modern life, but that, with a little study, turn out to have a great deal to say.

Discusses the new book titled `The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause,' by Germaine Greer.

The article examines whether women fiction writers are taken as seriously as male authors. Figures indicate several publications including "The New York Times" and the "Atlantic" review significantly more novels written by men than by women. The author notes that books with family themes by such writers as John Updyke and Jonathan Franzen are often seen as serious inquiries into the human condition.