Women’s History Month: Pauline Wengeroff, the late-19th-century Russian grandmother and memoirist who saw through the emerging patriarchy in Eastern Europe, was no Betty Friedan
How an alluring radical nihilism seduces believers into forms of extremism
Expansive, intimate, and wise, the late author of the newly reissued feminist masterpiece ‘The Mermaid and the Minotaur’ sought to change the alchemy of the battle of the sexes