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The Mad Women’s Ball book lying tilted on a dark textured surface with a dried rose, vintage key, and lace in a moody minimalist still-life setting.

The Mad Women’s Ball | Victoria Mas | 2019 | Book Review

The Mad Women’s Ball Book Review: A Haunting Look at Women, Madness, and Control Some books disturb you loudly. Others do it quietly, almost politely, until you realize they have left a bruise. As a book, The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas belongs to the second kind. It is slim, atmospheric, and deceptively simple on Read more…

woman in bridal finery staring into a mirror reflecting female suffering and hidden pain

The Bride of Silence | Poetry

I am afraid of my own tears, Afraid they may fall too fiercely, Hot as confession, Heavy as centuries of hidden pain, And burn the softness from my face. The mirror has always known me As the obedient girl with the practiced smile, The one whose lips bloom on command Like prayer offered before an Read more…

Mona Lisa is a poem about a woman whose identity has been limited to her beauty

Mona Lisa | Poetry | April 2021 | Anagha

She waited in the corners As people came and went The winds howled faraway And birds roared above But she only had four walls to stay   To have given up her freedom To only be called a beauty O’ what a silly bargain had it been One she had known all along One they Read more…

Book review of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

[Book Review] ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Margaret Atwood is an award-winning Canadian author, poet and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General’s Award as well as Franz Kafka Prize, Atwood explores a variety of themes in her writing such as gender, identity, language as a tool of power and many more. The Read more…