Katherine Rowland

Katherine Rowland is the former publisher of Guernica. A writer and social sector strategist, her work has appeared in Nature, the Financial Times, Aeon, Psychology Today, and elsewhere. Her book, The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution will be published by Seal Press in January of 2020.

Where Disease Stopped and My Brother Began

By June 21, 2019
Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide.

Everything Just Disappeared

By February 2, 2015

In Gavdos there is a sort of collective protest against the past. Not against history and the stubborn patterns we mistake for certainty, but against all evidence of time beyond the beach.

Prison Journal of a Child Bride

Katherine Rowland with Hossein Raeesi, translated by Roger Sedarat August 1, 2014

At times I wonder whether they considered me a human being or a lamb to sacrifice for their own good.

Robert Bullard onTalking Clean and Acting Dirty

By June 16, 2014

The “father of environmental justice” on the politics of protection and vulnerability.

Daniel Bergner on The Science of Sex

By December 4, 2013

The journalist on researching lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why “voyeurism is essential to good writing.”

David Finkel: The Afterwar

By October 15, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses PTSD, returning home from the front lines, and America's "haphazard system" of veteran care.

It’s All in Your Head

By July 15, 2013

People come to think of their unhappiness as a disease, rather than the result of a traumatic world.

Claire Messud: Interior Lives

By May 15, 2013

The award-winning novelist on the fluidity of sexuality, the intersections of art and selfishness, and her most recent book, The Woman Upstairs.