FictionReviewA writer struggles after becoming a mother in this vibrant, genre-busting study of the divided self
The Danish author Olga Ravn would have been a teenager when Rachel Cusk’s 2001 memoir, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, was first published. Cusk’s intense, elegant description of one woman’s experience marked the beginning of a wave of important writing on the subjective, often ambivalent interior world of early motherhood. Ravn’s rangy, unsettled new autofiction, My Work, is not unusual in folding a knowledgable, articulate discussion of this work into a real-time analysis of its own intimate story. Read More...
Throughout the sport’s history, there have been a number of rivalries on the bodybuilding scene. None, though, were as powerful and compelling as the one between Ronnie Coleman and Flex Wheeler.
Even though Flex is widely regarded as one of the best there ever was, he can’t feel anything but shame when thinking about his loss at the 1998 Mr. Olympia,
The athlete recently spoke to Fitness Volt in an interview in September 2022 regarding his feelings as he watched his rival climb the leaderboard. Read More...
Ellen Ochoa (left), the first Hispanic female astronaut, and Major Eileen M. Collins, the first woman to be named as a pilot candidate, begin their first day of candidate training at NASA in Houston, Texas, on July 16, 1990. AP hide caption ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7zRZ6arn1%2BosrO1xKxmamtnbH5zfpRuZq2glWKyr7CMqJ1mrJiaerS8wJycZquYqsG1uMRmnKuZ