Sec. of State John Thurston rejected the Arkansas Abortion Amendment based on a paperwork error, but women’s health advocates are not going away without a fight.
August 2024 magazine
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The Observer: Grand Finale
Star-spangled realizations about life, parenthood, and nostalgia.
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Put a ring on it: Olympic storylines we’re following from afar
Woo, oui! Hogs take Paris.
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‘Dovetail Purses’ exhibition on display at ESSE Purse Museum
Who says handbags have to be dainty? That seems to be one of the questions driving New Orleans-based artist Jennifer Dove Cooper, whose handmade, intricately-decorated purses are fashioned from recycled materials, like egg cartons, clothing scraps and water bottles.
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‘Secret doors and lost texts’: A Q&A with writer Jen Fawkes
Partway through “Daughters of Chaos,” Sylvie Swift ventures beneath the brothel where she’s been staying in Civil War-era Nashville and discovers that the prostitutes are up to something darkly mystical, foregoing sex work in favor of feminist rituals through which they subtly reprogram the violence-prone psyches of their clientele. That’s just one of the many forms of masquerading going on in Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes’ debut novel.