Berlin Postcard Berlin Postcard
Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990.
Oct 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him aget-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famousdirector, a lot of famous and gifted peop...
Oct 1, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Kristof’s Challenge Kristof’s Challenge
If women's equality is the cause of our time, we'll get further by acknowledging it's a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.
Sep 16, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
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