Essays
by Marjorie
Williams not collected in The Woman
at the Washington Zoo
"Robert Gates and the Neverending Story," Washington Post, Sept
19, 1991
"Divided We Stand," Washington Post, December 29, 1991
“Without
Fear or Females,” Washington Monthly, March 1992
“Was
There More to ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Than Just Jiggle?,”
Washington Monthly, May 1994
“Friedan
Goes Fuzzy,” Washington Monthly, November 1997
"The
Breakfast Table" (with Timothy Noah), Slate, July 6-24,
1998
“A
Man in Full” (with Timothy Noah), Slate, November 9-13,
1998
“Man
of the Hour” (profile of Brian Williams), Vanity Fair,
January 1999
“The
Breakfast Table” (with Atul Gawande), Slate, March
15-18, 1999
“Turn
of the Century” (with Nathan Myhrvold), Slate, May
17-23, 1999
“The
First Lady,” Washington Monthly, July 1999
“Eleanor
Roosevelt” (with Christopher Caldwell), Slate, July
26-29, 1999
“Does
Al Gore Have A Heart?,” Salon, March 7, 2000
"Time
For Changing 'Nappies,'" Washington Post, March 31, 2000
“The
Breakfast Table” (with Joel Achenbach), Slate, April
10-13, 2000
“The
Breakfast Table” (with Tucker Carlson), Slate, October
30-November 2, 2000
“Alfred
Portale’s 12 Season Cookbook; Think Like A Chef; Simple to
Spectacular” (with Sarah Lyall), Slate, December 18-20,
2000
“Left
Back and Ordinary Resurrections” (with Christopher
Caldwell), Slate, September 11-13, 2000
“How
Slatesters Voted” (with Slate staff), Slate, November
7, 2000
“The
Constant Gardener” (with Sarah Lyall), Slate, Jan.
15-6, 2001
“Fast
Food Nation” (with Katha Pollitt), Slate, February
5-7, 2001
“The
Man Who Loved Children” (with Katha Pollitt), Slate,
March 6-8, 2001
“Dreamcatcher”
(with Sarah Lyall), Slate, April 4-6, 2001
“Energy
Amnesia,” Washington Post, May 2, 2001
“The
Painful Playground,” Washington Post, May 9, 2001
“Mean,
Mean Moms,” Washington Post, May 16, 2001
“…Or
Jeffords’s Principles?,” Washington Post, May
30, 2001
“Spinning
the Jenna Story,” Washington Post, June 6, 2001
“Reno’s
Run,” Washington Post, June 13, 2001
“Mid-Twenties
Malaise,” Washington Post, June 27, 2001
“Surrendering
to Fear,” Washington Post, October 25, 2002
“Minimizing
Menopause,” Washington Post, November 20, 2002
“Dean’s
Loss of Nerve,” Washington Post, February 1, 2004
“Propriety
Malfunction,” Washington Post, February 5, 2004
“Win
One For the Flipper,” Washington Post, March 7, 2004
Marjorie’s work has been anthologized
in:
The
Best American Political Writing 2002
The
Best American Essays 2006
The
Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology
The
Best American Magazine Writing 2006
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