Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute</a>.</p> <p>Pollitt has been contributing to <em>The Nation</em> since 1980. Her 1992 essay on the culture wars, "Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me..." won the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism, and she won a Whiting Foundation Writing Award the same year. In 1993 her essay "Why Do We Romanticize the Fetus?" won the Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.</p> <p>Many of Pollitt's contributions to <em>The Nation</em> are compiled in three books: <em>Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism</em> (Knopf); <em>Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture</em> (Modern Library); and <em>Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time</em> (Random House). In 2007 Random House published her collection of personal essays, <em>Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories</em>. Two pieces from this book, "Learning to Drive" and its followup, "Webstalker," originally appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em>. "Learning to Drive" is anthologized in Best American Essays 2003.</p> <p>Pollitt has also written essays and book reviews for <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, <em>Harper's</em>, <em>Ms.</em>, <em>Glamour</em>, <em>Mother Jones</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, and the <em>London Review of Books</em>. She has appeared on NPR's <em>Fresh Air</em> and <em>All Things Considered</em>, <em>Charlie Rose</em>, <em>The McLaughlin Group</em>, CNN, <em>Dateline NBC</em> and the BBC. Her work has been republished in many anthologies and is taught in many university classes.</p> <p>For her poetry, Pollitt has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her 1982 book <em>Antarctic Traveller</em> won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been published in many magazines and are reprinted in many anthologies, most recently <em>The Oxford Book of American Poetry</em> (2006).  Her second collection, <em>The Mind-Body Problem</em>, came out from Random House in 2009.</p> <p>Born in New York City, she was educated at Harvard and the Columbia School of the Arts. She has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brooklyn College, UCLA, the University of Mississippi and Cornell. She has taught poetry at Princeton, Barnard and the 92nd Street Y, and women's studies at the New School University.</p>" />

Katha Pollitt

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@kathapollitt

Katha Pollitt is a columnist forĀ The Nation.

Weird Science Weird Science

My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.

Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers

It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...

Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale

You're 19, single, on welfare. You breast-feed your baby because you know breast is best. When the baby fails to gain weight, your mother says not to worry, you were even smaller...

May 27, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian

Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.

May 13, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Women’s Rights: As the World Turns Women’s Rights: As the World Turns

Does it seem to you that feminism this past year was just one long gargle over the meaning of Monica? That the biggest women's issue was whether oral sex is sex?

Mar 11, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Re: Juanita Broaddrick Re: Juanita Broaddrick

We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978.

Mar 4, 1999 / Katha Pollitt

The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?

I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Strange Case of Baby M The Strange Case of Baby M

I think I understand Judge Harvey Sorkow's ruling in the Baby M case.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Katha Pollitt

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