Autist's Corner

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There's a brief passage in Betty Friedan's landmark study of American housewives in the 1950s and '60s, The...

I wrote a guest post about Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's book Herland for Her Circle Ezine , a website about women, writing and art. The ...

Marti Leimbach 's 2006 novel, Daniel Isn't Talking , covers a lot of the same narrative territory as the first volume of Keiko Tobe...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : People often use spatial metaphors to talk about autism. Ian Hacking, in his article "Autistic Autobiographies,...

In this post from two months ago, Red Megaera * says: What I'd really like to see is a feminist dystopian novel about the creeping inc...

In the past month or so, I've come across two very similar instances of literary criticism in which the critic invokes "autism...

Having finished Jude the Obscure not too long ago , I'd like to return to the subject of Sue Bridehead, and what an unusual, confusing ...

Full disclosure: I love Margaret Atwood's books. I have ten or eleven of them (of which two are being loaned out to a friend in Tennesse...

One thing I never got to in my last post, but which I wanted to write about, is the character of Blackwolf. He's the Champions' Batm...