Here’s what The Riveter’s editorial team has been reading this week.

By The Editors

“The Overprotected Kid” by Hanna Rosin

The Atlantic

Hanna Rosin, Atlantic editor and co-founder of Slate’s Double X, explores the modern parental obsession with safety and scheduling. And, of course, no quality piece of feature-writing is complete without a totally and completely harmonious Shaggy reference.

“Arundhati Roy, the Not-So Reluctant Renegade” by Siddhartha Deb

The New York Times Magazine

An enlightening and quietly funny conversation with the Man Booker Fiction Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things.

“What Doesn’t Kill You Doesn’t Kill You” by Karen Benning

The Morning News

Author Karen Benning takes us on a poignant and hilarious trip through Alaskan bear country. One billion Riveter-points to her for coining the term “bearanoia.”

“The Problem With Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Ban Bossy’ Campaign” by Ann Friedman

The Cut

The Cut’s columnist Ann Friedman on why the “bossy ban” isn’t all it’s supposedly cracked up to be: “The main reason I can’t stomach the bossy ban, though, is that it represents a feminist strategy that’s failed in the past, and it plays into a negative characterization of feminism more generally.”

“Blood Speaks” by Rose George

Mosaic Science

Rose George reports on Nepalese women and the practice of chhaupadi, a tradition in which women are shunned by their family and neighbors during menstruation. It is a powerful and important read for global women’s-health advocates, and generalists. The reporting and photography are superb.

“Long Story Short: Lydia Davis’s Radical Fiction” by Dana Goodyear

The New Yorker

Dana Goodyear profiles “very-short-story writer” Lydia Davis. We’re googly-eyed about women writing about women writing, for obvious reasons.

“One More Time: Why We Love Repetition in Music” by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Aeon

Elizabeth Hellmuth margulis, director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas and trained concert pianist, offers a sneak peek at her upcoming book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind.

Anything by Mona Chalabi at FiveThirtyEight

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight launched this week, and The Riveter is super pleased to see a lady-journo (Mona Chalabi, formerly of The Guardian) breaking into the ranks of top data journalists. And if you thought data journalism was “boring,” you haven’t read her stuff on British teeth, carrier pigeons, and Pope-swearing.

 

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