Sarah Blackwood

Sarah Blackwood is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Pace and the author of The Portrait’s Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States. She is working on a book about mid-twentieth-century children’s book editors and writers. (April 2023)

Letter from an English Department on the Brink

Letter from an English Department on the Brink

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway.

April 2, 2023

Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Exercises

In her most recent graphic novel, Alison Bechdel explores her lifelong obsession with fitness.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

by Alison Bechdel, with coloring by Holly Rae Taylor

July 21, 2022 issue

Children’s Lib!

Children’s Lib!

A new biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of Harriet the Spy, recovers her queer, radical life.

Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

by Leslie Brody

May 13, 2021 issue

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