I first spied the book last spring, in the lap of a vaguely witchy young woman pinched between two men on the subway. Soon the book disappeared into a woven bag, her shoulder brushed against mine, and it was as if she had initiated me into a secret club. The book, “Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype,” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, was first published in 1992. Its cover recalls a vintage GeoCities website: black background, underlined gold text, thumbnail-sized etching of a woman and her lupine companion. Accounts of menstruation, childbirth, menopause and gender transition howl through the worlds of theater and television, memoir and art.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 18:22 UTC