New Nation Column: "Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare..."
Katha's new column is up now at The Nation. Read it online.
THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
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THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
“It’s awfully good to have such a great-hearted poet as Katha Pollitt take on mortality’s darkest themes. Again and again she finds a human-sized crack of light and squeezes us through with her.”—Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate
Katha Pollitt writes the award-winning column, “Subject to Debate,” for The Nation magazine. She is also the author of two books of poetry and several collections of essays. Pollitt currently lives in Berlin, where she is working on a new book.
- Order Pollitt’s highly-praised collection of poetry, The Mind-Body Problem.
- Order Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, a collection of personal essays.
- Read and add your signature to An Open Letter From American Feminists
- Read Pollitt's bio and "Subject to Debate" column archive
- Read Pollitt's Nation blog, And Another Thing
- Have a comment or question? Contact Katha Pollitt.
Books by Katha Pollitt
- The Mind-Body Problem (Poems)
- Now in paperback: Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Essays)
- Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (Essays)
- Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Essays)
- Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Nation columns)
- Antarctic Traveller (Poems)
Latest Nation Columns
- Obama Stands Up to Bishops. Finally.
- Ron Paul, Take Two
- Ron Paul's Strange Bedfellows
- Occupy the Holidays!
- Bishops vs. Women: Which Side Is Obama On?
- Penn State's Patriarchal Pastimes
- Rick Perry, God and Me: When I Got the Call
- We Are All Occupiers Now: The Mainstreaming of OWS
- Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare...
- Whispers of Jackie O
- The Poor: Still Here, Still Poor
- Michele Bachmann, Wife in Chief?
- Birth Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Talk the Talk, Walk the SlutWalk
- A Conversation With Saudi Women's Rights Campaigner Wajeha al-Huwaider
- Dear France, We're So Over
- Women Who Ran With the Republicans
- The Bitter Tea of Greg Mortenson
- After Budget Showdown, Women Under the Bus
- Women Under the Budget Knife
- In Its Crusade Against Choice, Has the GOP Gone Too Far?
- It Takes a Village, Not a Tiger
- Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Horror Show
- Jared Loughner's Glock: Weapon of Mass Destruction
- The Case of Julian Assange
- Spread the Joy
- On Condoms, Hope From the Pope
- Antichoicers on the March
- Postcards from Capetown
- Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?
- Franzenfreude, Continued
- It's Better Over There
- Ground Zero for Free Speech
- Grisly Mamas
- Women On Top?
- Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9
- Veil of Fears
- Whatever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
- Let Us (Not) Pray
- Letter from Berlin
- Papal Indulgences
- Payback for Prochoicers
- Global Women: Good News, Bad News
- What Ever Happened to Candidate Obama?
- Focus on the Fetus
- Free Nazia Quazi
- The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?
- Time to Get Out Those Checkbooks
- Last Column About Sarah Palin -- Ever
- Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
- Working Women: Strength in Numbers
- German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry
- Are You Happy?
- Kristof's Challenge
- The Female Gourmet
- Healthcare We Can Believe In
- Can This Marriage Be Saved?
- Muslim Women's Rights, Continued
- Dr. George Tiller, 1941-2009
- Amber Waves of Blame
- Unnatural Born Killer
- Better Living Through Torture
- What Do (Battered) Women Want?
- Love Me, I'm a Conservative
- Mad About Michelle
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Generous?
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Stimulating Reading
- Caroline and Me
- 'Tis the Season to Be Generous
- Barack Obama, Feminist in Chief?
- The People's Choice
- Sayonara, Sarah
- Culture War: Out of Juice?
- Follow-ups for Sarah Palin
- Sarah Palin, Affirmative Action Babe
- Lipstick on a Wing Nut
- Hillary Does the Right Thing
Latest Nation Blog Posts
- The Komen Foundation Pinkwashes Anti-choicers, Punks Planned Parenthood
- Komen's Ambiguous Apology
- Regarding Christopher
- Let's Treat ALL Women Like Children
- No, Erica Jong, Sex Is Not Passe
- This Just In: Not All Women Are Pacifists
- Mayor to Judge: Drop Dead
- Naomi Wolf: Wrong Again On Rape
- Switzerland's Polanski Protection Program
- Nicole Hollander is a National Treasure: Thirty Years of Sylvia
- Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship
- The BP Oil Disaster: Bringing it All Back Home
- Saudi Feminist Wajeha Al-Huwaider: An Open Letter to President Obama
- Rand Paul: 'Principled Libertarian'? Not.
- Choice v. Freedom?
- Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School
- Q & A with Carole Joffe
- Nazia Quazi Update
- Haitian Relief: Shelter is Crucial, Underfunded
- More Ways to Give!
- Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge
- Berlin Postcard
- Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
- Lubna Hussein: Hero
- Obama's 100-Day Hope Check
- Get Rid of Bush's Last-Minute HHS Regulation
- From My Inbox: WRRAP Says Thanks; UPDATE
- National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers
- Open Letter to Defend Shirin Ebadi
- This Week's Woman We Love to Hate
- From My Inbox: UPDATE on Dr. Susan Wicklund's Clinic
- Birth Control Belongs in the Stimulus Bill
- MLK-Inauguration Challenge
- Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again
- Can You Help "Nickie"?
- Election Updates--Good News and Not
- I Heart Michelle Obama
- Stealth Assault on Reproductive Rights
- A Campaign to Stop Stoning
- Sign the Open Letter From American Feminists
Blogroll
- Reproductive Health Reality Check
- Michelle Obama Watch
- Racialicious
- Goods 4 Girls
- Feminist Peace Network
- The G Spot
- Crooked Timber
- Laila Lalami
- Baghdad Burning
- Christopher Hayes
- Monocles Galore
- Barbara Ehrenreich's blog
- Pandagon
- TPMCafe
- The Garance
- Abortion Clinic Days
- Jenny Diski
- Informed Comment
- Echidne of the Snakes
- Maud Newton
- Feministing
- Quick Study
- Feministe
- MajikThise
- James Wolcott
- Bitch Ph.D.
- Emdashes
- Alas, A Blog
Selected Links to Other Work
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