Global Politics
How Marine Le Pen Uses Her Femininity as a Smokescreen
Following the French election, the far-right National Rally will stay out of power—for now. But the journalist Megan Clement warns the movement is not going away, either.
Francesca Donner
Francesca Donner is the founder and editor of The Persistent. She has worked in newsrooms including The New York Times where she was the gender director and the editor of ‘In Her Words’ and The Wall Street Journal where she was a deputy editor.
Culture
Men Still Aren’t Reading Women’s Books. Can the Women’s Prize Help?
The author Kate Mosse co-founded the Women’s Prize for Fiction to shrink the gender gap in publishing. Twenty-nine years on, she says her work is far from finished.
Culture
Was Shakespeare a Feminist? Juliet Gives Us a Clue.
A new production of Romeo and Juliet in London peels back layers of misogyny, racism and sexism. It’s a lot.