Pat Reber
If you want to see how Earth’s oceans are coping with global warming, what better way than to sail around the world for 15 years — and have a little fun doing it?
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“I was in a dominant position, and I used the weapons of that dominance, whose fragility, in a romantic relationship, I nonetheless recognized.”
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The nearly 60 women science writers mentioned in “Writing for Their Lives” – and listed in an appendix – are testament to women’s pioneering contribution to science journalism.
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Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.
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Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?
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What is literature if it doesn’t kick you in the ass every now and then and get you to act? Maybe that’s what the Nobel committee thought when it awarded Annie Ernaux this year’s Literature Prize.
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Book Review: Searching for “Truth and Repair” — Asking Rape Survivors For Their Vision of Justice
For real change to happen, argues Judith Herman, “crimes of dominance and subordination would need to be approached as a matter of public health as well as public safety, with prevention as a primary goal.”
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