Find Our Mothers
Three recent texts recast the social roles of mothers and the psychology of motherhood....
Violence Against Women from Ancient Rome to Today: On Mithu Sanyal’s “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Mithu Sanyal’s history-crossing account of violence against women in “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo.”...
States of Desire: On Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women”
Helena Duncan immerses herself in “Three Women” by Lisa Taddeo, a report on the state of women’s sexual desire in America....
Identity Shaping on Social Media: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”
Maggie Levantovskaya gazes into “Trick Mirror,” a new essay collection by Jia Tolentino....
An Ethical Matryoshka: On Daniela Petrova’s “Her Daughter’s Mother”
Randle Browning reviews “Her Mother’s Daughter” by Daniela Petrova....
“But There Has Been a Catastrophe”: On Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”
Philip Ó Ceallaigh searches for truth behind the censorship of “Stalingrad,” the epic novel by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler....
Stay Out of the Forest: On Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered”
Jacquelyn Ardam weighs in on “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered” by “My Favorite Murder” podcasters Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff....
Past and Pastiche in Howard A. Rodman’s “The Great Eastern”
Brian Evenson finds Howard A. Rodman’s sprawling, engaging novel "The Great Eastern" “a kind of return to what adventurous literature used to be.”...
Generous Worlds: Rethinking the Fate of the American University
Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”...
Fighting as Conversation: On Jaed Coffin’s “Roughhouse Friday”
"Roughhouse Friday" details Jaed Coffin’s hunger for a language he can call his own....
Toward the Weirdy-Beardy: On Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s “Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral”
James Womack romps through “Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral,” translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse....
A Different Handmaid’s Tale: On Joanne Ramos’s “The Farm”
Joanne Ramos's "The Farm" doesn’t always make it easy to classify who is the oppressed and who is oppressor, and this is one of the book’s strengths....
