Beyond ‘Girl Gone Mad’ Melodrama: Reframing Female Anger In Psychological Thrillers
Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and many other books of the genre prioritise unhelpful stereotypes over more subtle psychological states.
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Feeling Spent? Here’s A Light-Hearted Reading List To Lift Your Mood
Amidst the crisis, here are some books that might help you brighten up your mood.
Woman At Point Zero: Nawal El Saadawi’s Radical African Feminism Was Ahead Of Its Time
El Saadawi’s feminism was ahead of its time – in both the Arab and the African worlds.
Hélisenne De Crenne: First French Novelist To Tell Her Own Story
Torments of Love is Hélisenne’s only work to be dedicated to female readers who she called “all honest ladies”.
Children’s Book Author Beverly Cleary Passes Away At 104
I believe my books age so well because childhood is universal: Beverly Cleary
WWF 2021 Anuja Chauhan: Individual experiences are the only richest source of inspiration
Everybody’s personal experiences are their raw data. Things that happen to you in the first person are your most individual source, and the things that a writer hears or reads are secondary sources. – WWF 2021 Anuja Chauhan
Shefali Tripathi Mehta On Why She Wrote A Book That Captures Stigmas Around Mental Health
Shefali Tripathi Mehta on what inspired her to write a book on the struggles of those caring for loved ones with mental health issues.
Why Scrapping Dr Seuss Books Is Not Cancel Culture
Dr Seuss’s work contains racism and xenophobia, but should we judge him by today’s standards?
Author Sonia Faleiro On The Cost Of Honour In Our Society
In 2014, two teen girls from a small village in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh were found hanging from a tree in an orchard. At that time author Sonia Faleiro was writing an expansive book on sexual violence against women in India. Initially, this incident was to be a part of that book, but when […]
What Are You Reading This Christmas Break? 11 Women Authors Tell Us About Their Favourite Book
Here we have an excellent list of recommendation from some very popular women authors. Which ones are you reading this festive season?
