Joanna Walsh

Time to reclaim language: words are more important than ever in the age of post-truth politics

In the post-factual days of President Donald Trump, Twitter reminds me that words must have meaning. It is time for us to attach actions to those words.

By Joanna Walsh

Time to reclaim language: words are more important than ever in the age of post-truth politics

Books

How The Mare throws gender, race and even language into flux

By Joanna Walsh

Science & Tech

“She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace“: whatever happened to Cyberfeminism?

By Joanna Walsh

Politics

Are we sex-literate? Why we should all be writing more about pleasure

By Joanna Walsh

Culture

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is moving in every sense of the word

By Joanna Walsh

All Articles

How Nell Zink’s bizarre brilliance found her success at fifty

After years of experimental exchanges with writer friends, she now drafts whole novels in weeks.

By Joanna Walsh

Han Kang’s The Vegetarian: the failures of language and the mysteries of the physical

Comparable to Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” to Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”, The Vegetarian ties social refusal to sexual protest.

By Joanna Walsh