by Miranda Popkey

Little Labors – Rivka Galchen

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What is the equivalent, to a sixteen year-old American girl, of the irritating gentleman caller in the tall, lacquered hat?

Witches of America – Alex Mar

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We speak derisively of being slaves to routine, but if all obligations were eliminated, if we were confronted by complete freedom of choice, who among us could honestly say that she would not be paralyzed?

A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin

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Berlin’s stories examine the consequences of living as if one were free when one is, because female, necessarily not.