Katha Pollitt's Blog, page 7

Read Pollitt's latest column online, at the Nation's website.

Read Katha Pollitt's review of Stacy Shchiff's new Cleopatra biography -- "Cleopatra With Brains," in Slate Magazine online.

This January, 53 additional antichoice Republicans will be taking their seats in the House and 5 more will be joining the Senate. Should we be worried about reproductive rights? Think of it this way: "...Only one of the new Republican senators thinks man-made global warming is real. So by the time they've taken control of your womb, you'll probably be dead."

Read the full column online at The Nation.

Read Pollitt's latest column about her trip to South Africa, "Postcards from Capetown, on The Nation's website.

Pollitt writes about current attitude toward sexual harassment. Read it online at NPR's website.

Read Pollitt's latest column on intergenerational feminism, "Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?"

Check out Pollitt's most recent column, "Franzenfreude, Continued," an excellent assessment of how male and female writers' works receive different -- and gender specific -- praise.

An excerpt from Pollitt's newest column:

My first day back in New York after a year in Berlin, I got on the subway and found my end of the car dominated by an obscenity-shouting black man with a crutch and a suitcase spilling garbage. When he tried to leave the train at Penn Station, he fell and cursed so loudly at two young men who tried to help him up that they backed off. Not once in my time in Berlin did I see anything remotely like this scene. Berlin is a poor city by German standards, wi...

Congratulaions to Katha Pollitt, who has been awarded the American Book Award's "Lifetime Achievement" prize!

From The Nation website:

The Nation's Katha Pollitt has been awarded the thirty-first annual American Book Award's prestigious "Lifetime Achievement" prize, celebrating her contributions both as an essayist and a poet. This is Pollitt's first American Book Award; she will be honored on September 19 at the awards ceremony in San Francisco. Pollitt is the author of several collections o...

In addition to the biweekly "Subject to Debate" column, Pollitt blogs regularly for The Nation. Read her posts online at thenation.com.

Recent posts include:

Switzerland's Polanski Protection Program

Nicole Hollander is a National Treasure: Thirty Years of Sylvia

Saudi Feminist Wajeha Al-Huwaider: An Open Letter to President Obama

Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School

The BP Oil Disaster: Bringing it All Back Home

Choice v. Freedom?