“I have an appetite for silence,” Emily Dickinson wrote, for “silence is infinity.” But are women today relishing in their solitude?

Anandi Mishra
Anandi Mishra is an essayist and critic, who has worked as a reporter for The Times of India and The Hindu. One of her essays has been translated to Italian and published in the Internazionale magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, Virginia Quarterly Review, Popula, The Brooklyn Rail and Al Jazeera, among others.