Feature

Ishikawa book cover A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Literary Presses Go Down

Mayra David assesses the future of literature in the Philippines. Read more

Books

Writing from the Margins, Women Writers of Maghreb Voices from Magrheb

This month is dedicated to four poets from the Maghreb, which most commonly refers to Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. The Maghreb has proven to have especially porous boundaries and, in the past, has included Spain, Sicily and Malta, as well. Read more

Weekly Featured Blogs

Overheard at a booksigning

Hello, HerCircle friends. As you might recall, my debut novel Janeology launched last month and I have been out and about promoting... Read more »

My Happy Life: The Disturbingly Sane

by Nicolette Westfall In My Happy Life, Lydia Millet takes the view that the members of society that do not fit in are insane... Read more »

Dear Talula, a film by Lori Benson

2006, 34 minutes Review by Nicolette Westfall Lori Benson potently documents her abrupt transition from new mother to a patient... Read more »

Women and Globalization

You Tell Me: Thoughts on Women and Globalization, Women and the Hijab Women and the Hijab or Why is that Man Shouting at Me?

Grace Andreacchi travels to Istanbul and Syria and discovers what women are hiding beneath the hijab. Read more