In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf argued that, historically, successful women writers have not been mothers. Of Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and George Eliot, she noted, “not ...
“Gunk,” a novel by Saba Sams, follows a woman through the trials and tenuous jobs of young adulthood. By Dwight Garner In “Whidbey,” three women reckon with the aftermath of sexual assault. By ...