by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 6, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Columbia University alumni Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters have curated 30 essays by women writers, including themselves, on the subject of home in This Is the Place. “We realized that home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it’s a place that is safe, sentimental,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 29, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, LGBTQ+, Social Science
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution is a more compelling title than US Transgender History 101. Susan Stryker, a transsexual woman and an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, packs a lesson plan into an...
by Whitney Smyth | Oct 31, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Social Science
For those of us looking for something with a little education along with our scares, look no further than Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers. The book features 30 women writers, both living and dead, who have used their skills to magic up some...
by Seniye Groff | Oct 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Psychology, Self-Help
What’s Your Creative Type? explores the five different creative types, or artistic personality profiles. Wagner hopes that “reading about the creative types – and identifying your own – will make your path to artistic self-discovery entertaining as well as...
by Axie Barclay | Jul 6, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, by Miranda K. Pennington, is an interesting read. It combines the author’s story and that of the Brontes’, not only their books, but their lives, letters, literary criticism, and...