Sophia Stewart

Some people spend a lifetime trying to unravel their relationship with their mother. That bond, after all, is fundamentally asymmetrical: Moms can watch their children become who they are, but children will never see their parents’ formative years firsthand. Who […]

Every young feminist, at some point, bumps up against the limits of her ideals. For me, it happened in my early 20s. My consciousness freshly raised and my mind spongier than ever, I spent my evenings imbibing the no-nonsense feminism

When she coined the term art monster in 2014, Jenny Offill didn’t anticipate how fervently readers would take to it. In her novel Dept. of Speculation, Offill’s narrator—a writer, wife, and new mother—confesses in a now oft-quoted passage that when