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Roxane Gay

March 2024

  • Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza near the White House in Washington on 16 October 2023.

    Authors withdraw from PEN America festival in protest over Israel-Gaza war

    Group of more than a dozen writers decry organization’s inadequate response to ‘genocide’ being committed by Israel

February 2024

  • Roxane Gay.

    Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories

    Writers including Roxane Gay have called on the organisation to ‘wake up from its silent, tepid, self-congratulatory middle of the road and take a stand’

October 2023

  • Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay: ‘I’m trying to move further left because that’s the only way that we’re gonna achieve change’

    The author and cultural commentator on racism, prison reform, weight loss drugs, violence and her idols

September 2023

  • Roxane Gay

    Book of the day
    Opinions by Roxane Gay review – the art of argument

    A second collection from the author of Bad Feminist is, at its best, effortlessly convincing

February 2023

  • Roxane Gay

    The G2 interview
    ‘I’ll always be a bad feminist!’: Roxane Gay on love, success – and upsetting Piers Morgan

    The writer, academic and cultural critic has had a tumultuous few years, full of love, grief and phenomenal creativity. She discusses women’s rights, writer’s block and why every day with her wife remains an adventure

March 2022

  • All About Women 2022 panel: protecting the outspoken event with Rosie Batty and Grace Tame

    ‘I was really scared’: Grace Tame opens up about her mental health, and more from All About Women

    Names including Tame, Roxane Gay and Aileen Moreton-Robinson came together at the Sydney festival, celebrating liberation, action and survival

June 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    I’m writing my memoir – does that make me just a character in a book?

    Hadley Freeman
    It’s the age of personal experience. But once you share, you no longer really own your story

March 2021

  • ‘I’m still visible, I’m still viable’ … a detail from Renee Cox’s Fur, part of American Family, which appears in A Woman’s Right to Pleasure.

    'My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room': the artists reclaiming women's sexuality

    A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera

January 2021

  • Gretchen Rubin in New York.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Gretchen Rubin's cultural highlights

    The American writer and happiness guru on Dolly Parton, the power of hearing – and focusing on wellbeing during the pandemic

October 2020

  • Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay

    Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay champion trans rights in open letter

    With more than 1,200 signatories the US and Canada including Neil Gaiman and NK Jemisin, message follows row over comments by JK Rowling

June 2020

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-ART-HAMMER MUSEUM-GALA<br>US writers Debbie Millman (L) and Roxane Gay arrive for the Hammer Museum’s 17th Annual Gala in the Garden at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, on October 12, 2019. (Photo by LISA O’CONNOR / AFP) (Photo by LISA O’CONNOR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Page turners
    Authors are sharing what they are paid - and it is brilliant

    Candice Carty-Williams
    #publishingpaidme highlights the fact that black authors often receive lower advances than their white counterparts

February 2020

  • People need to ‘realise what real censorship looks like’ … writer Roxane Gay.

    ‘Real censorship’: Roxane Gay responds to American Dirt death threat row

    The author argues the debate around Jeanine Cummins’ controversial novel shows how people are threatened for ‘daring to have opinions’

December 2019

  • Portrait of Sinead Gleeson, for Guardian Weekend Magazine, by Lydia Goldblatt February 2019, London

    Books that made me
    Sinéad Gleeson: ‘I don’t think reading offers comfort – a connection, yes’

    The writer on the influence of Maggie Nelson, ditching some Great American Novels and bingeing on Annie Ernaux

March 2019

  • Liberal party vice president Teena McQueen (left), American author Roxane Gay and host Tony Jones on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday.

    Q&A train wreck: Liberal Teena McQueen's debut goes from bad to worse

  • Katherine Mansfield Vs Virginia Woolf

    Headbutts, snark and furious obsession: a toxic history of literary rivalries

February 2019

  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who writes against exclusivity in the collection.

    Book of the day
    The Future Is Feminist review – two centuries of women’s wit and wisdom

    Editor Mallory Farrugia’s energising collection traces the living thread from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mindy Kaling

December 2018

  • Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay: ‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us’

  • Hannah Gadsby and Roxane Gay

    Tell me more: a conversation special
    Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’

November 2018

  • Meryl Streep Zadie Smith JK Rowling

    Meryl Streep and JK Rowling sign letter to UN over death of Jamal Khashoggi

  • Olivia Sudjic , Observer Studio, Kings Place, for feature on Debut Authors, New Review, 05/01/2017, Sophia Evans for The Observer

    How to refocus the spotlight on female writers

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