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You Might Like: '90s Nostalgia! Recommendations from The Persistent

Gen Z has fully embraced '90s trends and so are we. So, grab a baby doll dress and some combat boots and let's party like it’s 1995!

You Might Like: Women & Politics Recommendations from The Persistent

Books, podcasts and newsletters, even pins and T-shirts that celebrate our hard-earned right to vote, plus a little escapism TV along the way.

You Might Like—Spooky Recommendations from The Persistent

Must-see viewing from feminist horror to kid-friendly anime and a not-so-light read about the history of poison.

Culture

Where Is Mary Shelley In All the ‘Frankensteins’ Out There?

Maybe it’s time for a woman to show us what “Frankenstein” is really about.

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So Long, Jilly Cooper. It’s Been a Scream.

The author Jilly Cooper has died at 88. Her 18 novels and memoirs give us glorious insight into a bygone era.

Watercolor of Megan Clement, a white woman with dark hair and red lipstick in a denim boilersuit.

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'Quite Looking Forward to Going Mad With Grief'

A dying father. A world awash in Covid. A total loss of control. And a mind that refuses to snap.

Watercolor image of Saumya Dave, with brown eyes and long dark hear, wearing a white shirt.

Women You Should Know

If You Could Take a Pill That Erased Feelings of Guilt, Would You?

Imagine if women could unabashedly do their thing without worrying about others’ feelings.

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I Never Saw Myself in Romance Novels. Then, One Day, I Did.

Enthusiastic readers of romance novels would very much like to see themselves reflected on the page. When will the industry fully catch on?

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Our Year In Books: Escape? Engage? Do Both?

The Persistent's editors round up their favorite reads of the year.

Watercolor showing Mara Altman, with long dark hair and Kat Alexander, with long blonde hair. They're both smiling.

Women You Should Know

Two Friends, One Diagnosis: This Is a Love Story

When Kat Alexander started looping through cycles of mania, it was her best friend, Mara Altman, who came to the rescue.

Watercolor of Alison Place, a woman with long dark hair and bangs and blue eyes, folds her arms. She wears a yellow blouse.

Women You Should Know

Designers Are Taught to Think of Their Work as Neutral. It’s Not.

Feminist design can show up in anything from the apps we use to the healthcare we receive. The issue is prioritizing it.

Deborah Copaken stands outside a store in Cairo in jeans and a utility jacket, with a camera around her neck.

Culture

Lee and Me

I wanted to be the objectifier of men and their wars, quirks, and shortcomings, not the objectified. Why was this so hard?

A watercolor painting of the journalists Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer.

Women You Should Know

Two Journalists Investigated the Decade-Long Campaign to Criminalize Abortion. Here’s What They Found Out.

A new book takes a deep dive into the right-wing Christian campaign that overturned Roe v Wade. Ahead of this year’s presidential election, its authors uncover an America that is as divided on the issue as ever.

An abstract illustration of a woman gazing into a book.

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.