Philippe Saidi, The Washington Post

There’s another story for The Atlantic and Slate that also features an African-American woman and a white man. In both cases, the lead character is a woman and the lead character is about to tell a man not to feel intimidated in an intimate space. Yet in both cases, the women are the ones in power and the men are the one’s who need to be scared.

Hannah Beech, Vanity Fair

In “Injustice in Paradise,” the title story of the recent series by Janna Basenji on the U.S. legal system, there is both a brilliant discussion about race in American law and an insight into the nature of our justice system. There is also an amazing moment when the male lead of a movie is told to sit down because he’s having a bad day on the job. And in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the author of the novel talks about the difficulty of telling a story about a young woman who’s in danger (or really being stalked in one of the many fictionalized stalking scenes) and her willingness to let her body tell the story all on its own.

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Carol J. Hanlon, The Washington Post

This is a question you’d expect to hear all the time on the Internet: What do we care about male-female relationships?

Laura McGann, New York Times Magazine

I’m going to assume that we’re mostly interested in this question because we care about gender—and how the differences between the sexes matter in terms of what men expect. But it is a good question. A lot. I am pretty certain it is the most popular thing that every woman and man has ever thought about—and for good reason. We, as a culture, continue to struggle to find ways to acknowledge and address the differences between how men and women relate to each other. Men and women are supposed to be equals in every other regard—except for relationships. And even in the realms of love and sex, men and women don’t get it right all the time. The differences between the sexes are not as obvious as we think; they’re so subtle. (I’m talking to you, Rachel Griffiths, who recently wrote a book about her husband’s tendency to “feel the world would be better off without us”). And when we try to tell them, we’re always a lot less than happy with the