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An adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story “Cat Person” (archive) published in The New Yorker during the height of #MeToo. Trailer. Streaming on Hulu. [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo on Feb 19, 2024 - 4 comments

In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph. [more inside]
posted by the primroses were over on Mar 26, 2023 - 5 comments

Son Ye Jin, from Crash Landing on You, is the female lead for Something in the Rain, a Korean drama from 2018 about an older woman/younger man romance, with lots of family drama, and women fighting against the patriarchy. Taboos will be broken! [more inside]
posted by kbar1 on May 3, 2021 - 5 comments

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
posted by growabrain on May 1, 2020 - 3 comments

Jake and Amy investigate a workplace harassment and sexual assault case at a big financial firm; Holt is suspicious when his old nemesis "The Disco Strangler" dies. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Mar 1, 2019 - 19 comments

7: "Kimmy Fights a Fire Monster!" 8: "Kimmy is in a Love Square!" 9: "Sliding Van Doors" 10: "Kimmy Finds a Liar!" 11: "Kimmy is Rich*!" 12: "Kimmy Says Bye!" [more inside]
posted by crepesofwrath on Jan 27, 2019 - 5 comments

Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”―The Guardian In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him―and to... [more inside]
posted by OHenryPacey on Jan 14, 2019 - 8 comments

Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement. "Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It's the most compassionate book I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch." --NPR In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things.
posted by snerson on Nov 30, 2018 - 2 comments

"After Murphy attends a sexual harassment seminar for the 'Murphy in the Morning' staff, she is surprised to find herself reeling from the long-repressed memory of her own #MeToo moment." [more inside]
posted by brainwane on Oct 12, 2018 - 7 comments