Rachel Vorona Cote

is the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Her work has also appeared in Longreads, The New Republic, Literary Hub, Pitchfork, Hazlitt, and Catapult. She was previously a contributing writer at Jezebel.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s Art of Disobedience Oscar Wilde’s Art of Disobedience

Revisiting his critical writing, we learn a valuable lesson about the critic’s role in refusing bad taste and bad politics.

Oct 9, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote

The Artists Wife by Lamplight

The Passion and Agony of the Bibliophile The Passion and Agony of the Bibliophile

Following an ardent and obsessive reader, Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19 asks if one can find all the things they need in life in a book.

Jun 6, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote

A Feast of Strawberries (Blue Tits) by Eloise Harriet Stannard

Is There a Better Way to Tell the Story of Nonhuman Life? Is There a Better Way to Tell the Story of Nonhuman Life?

Thalia Field’s Personhood challenges us to examine how human language has made it harder to care for the natural world.

Sep 23, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote

What We Talk About When We Talk About Catastrophe

What We Talk About When We Talk About Catastrophe What We Talk About When We Talk About Catastrophe

In Elisa Gabbert’s new essay collection, she tries to untangle the fickle and contradictory ways humans deal with disaster.

Aug 27, 2020 / Rachel Vorona Cote

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