Kate Bolick

What the Sofa Said

The choices we impose on our living spaces are at once personal and inescapably social, a jumble of instinct and cultural expectation so complex that for most of us they play out beneath the radar of conscious thought.

The Equivocal Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In literary terms, Gilman was never a masterful writer, but what she brought to the page retains a distinctive place in American letters: a mix of perspicacity, subversiveness, and humor, propelled by an admirable taste for experimentation and an inexhaustible work ethic.