The Female Gourmet The Female Gourmet
A movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work? Delicious.
Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Perils of the Poetry Reading Perils of the Poetry Reading
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don't have the text in front of me? Even when reading to myself at my own ...
Aug 30, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
A Friend Reports from a Town Hall Meeting A Friend Reports from a Town Hall Meeting
(Claire Moses, professor of women's studies at the University of Maryland, describes the town hall meeting on health care held by Democratic Rep. Jim Moran in Reston, Virginia, ...
Aug 27, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Voting in Kabul Voting in Kabul
(Women for Afghan Women, a humanitarian organization I've supported for many years, runs a shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence in Kabul, and a smaller one in ...
Aug 23, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Letter from Kabul Letter from Kabul
(Women for Afghan Women, a humanitarian organization I've supported for many years, runs a shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence in Kabul, and a smaller one in ...
Aug 19, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Perils of the Poetry Reading Perils of the Poetry Reading
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don't have the text in front of me? Even when reading to myself at my own ...
Aug 19, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Healthcare We Can Believe In Healthcare We Can Believe In
Polls show most Americans still want reform. But polls don't mean much politically if everyone stays quiet. Never mind wonkery--we need a movement.
Aug 12, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Lubna Hussein, Hero Lubna Hussein, Hero
When the subject of Islamic dress comes up, it's often phrased the way President Obama put it in his Cairo speech -- as women's right to wear what they want. Hear, hear. ...
Aug 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Readers Real and Ideal Readers Real and Ideal
(I posted this at The Best American Poetry last Friday. I'm going to be blogging there regularly about poetry. I hope you'll take a look.) I love the Gertrude Stein quip David ...
Aug 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Whom do you Write your Poems for? Whom do you Write your Poems for?
It's easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of vari...
Aug 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt