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Jane Kramer writes about the writer and activist Gloria Steinem, whose book “My Life on the Road” comes out in October, and her influence on feminism.
Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964 and has written the Letter from Europe since 1981.
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Jane Kramer writes about the writer and activist Gloria Steinem, whose book “My Life on the Road” comes out in October, and her influence on feminism.
Yotam Ottolenghi’s ideas are changing the way London eats.
Jane Kramer on foraging with the chef René Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen, had then been twice named the best in the world. “Foraging is treasure hunting,” he says.
Elisabeth Badinter’s contrarian feminism.
The battle within the Church of England to allow women to be bishops.
Israel, Palestine, and a tenure battle at Barnard.
The battle for France.
Jane Kramer on Benedict XVI, Catholicism, and Islam.
Jane Kramer on how a left-wing socialite created an intellectual salon that took over an entire building and ran for forty years.
Jane Kramer’s classic 1992 story about the sculptor John Ahearn, whose statues of his Bronx neighbors launched a debate over political correctness and who has the right to make art for the city.
Jane Kramer’s Profile of the poet Allen Ginsberg, at work planning the 1967 “Human Be-In” at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.