Lisa Taddeo: ‘I suppose it comes as no surprise that I like dark writing’
The novelist on the influence of Joy Williams, giving up on Norman Mailer and finding comfort in William Trevor’s short stories
June 2021
‘I’ve decided to stop apologising’: Lisa Taddeo on women and rage
When a man acts in anger, we step aside, but a woman gets labelled ‘crazy bitch’. In a personal, ferocious treatise, the author says we need to change the script
August 2020
The mother load: Lisa Taddeo on parenting in a pandemic
Teacher, worker, carer, cook ... family life has gone back to the 1950s for many women. The Three Women author on why it’s time to let go of the tyranny of the ‘good’ mother
