Studying human evolution reveals that older women have always been essential to the surviving and thriving of the species.
Marianne Hirsch
Marianne Hirsch teaches comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University. Her most recent books are School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (University of Washington Press, 2020), coauthored with Leo Spitzer, and the coedited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019). 
The Art of Protest
I marched with thousands on the streets of New York, asserting that “Trump is Not Our President” and “Love Trumps Hate.” So far we are free to assemble on Union Square in New York, to march up Fifth ...
Sweet Rage
Until the publication of the long-awaited See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s stories and novels had met with almost unqualified praise. When it appeared last year her latest book was almost unanimously ...