The Myths Of Demise of The Women’s Review Of Books

So the Women’s Review of Books is fading into history. Was it inevitable, given the times? That’s too pat an explanation, writes former WRB senior editor Lynn Walterick. “In the post–November 2 United States—and certainly earlier––dialogue, reasonable disagreement, and discovery appear to have joined the ranks of endangered species. Difference is under siege; choice—on all fronts—has disappeared, is declining, or is shadowed by threat. This is no time to leave the line of battle for the bottom line.”