Women's Review of Books - 2021 Issues
January/February 2021
Jennifer Baumgardner, Women's Review of Books editor in chief, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
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Friend, Foe, Fetish Fat By Hanne Blank
Reviewed by Ariel Kim
Awake Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic By Kenya Hunt
Reviewed by Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
Uncertainty Principle Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader By Vivian Gornick
Reviewed by Laurie Stone
Ice Poetica The Freezer Door By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
Bionic Woman Bright and Dangerous Objects By Anneliese Mackintosh
Reviewed by Elisa Faison
Mother Of Exiles Ellis Island: A People’s History By Małgorzata Szejnert, translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
Reviewed by Beth Holmgren
Poetry By Erin Belieu
Commentary By Katha Pollitt
Photography Strange Fruit: Photographs By Nicole Buchanan
Commentary By Ellen Feldman
North's West Outlawed By Anna North
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen
Poetry By Victoria M. Washington, Rebecca Morgan Frank, and Merridawn Duckler
Commentary By Katha Pollitt
Lucid Dreaming The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void By Jackie Wang
Reviewed by Maria Bobbitt-Chertock
System Ick Launching While Female: Smashing the System that Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back By Susanne Althoff
Reviewed by Brooke Warner
Honor the Birth Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century By Brianna Theobald
Reviewed by Andrea Ringer
At Home in the Entire World Rosa Luxemburg By Dana Mills
Reviewed by Charis Caputo
Black Noise Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds By Jayna Brown
Reviewed by K. Avvirin Gray
Television Lovecraft Country Adapted by Marsha Green from a novel by Matt Ruff
Reviewed by Kovie Biakolo
March/April 2021
Jennifer Baumgardner, Women's Review of Books editor in chief, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
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The Outsiders The Mermaid and the Minotaur By Dorothy Dinnerstein
Reviewed by Vivian Gornick
Rage Becomes Her Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
Rebel Girl Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy By Leslie Brody
Reviewed by Claire Bond Potter
Underground in Amerika The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America By Josephine Donovan
Reviewed by Nino Testa
Jazz Matriarch Soul on Soul:
The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams By Tammy L. Kernodle; Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams By Linda Dahl
Reviewed by Meisha Rosenberg
Sister Act The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. Nimura
Reviewed by Celeste Chamberland
Interview Warp and Weft: An Interview with Graphic Author Shira Spector By Tahneer Oksman
The Creative Weather: a poem / a chronicle By Holly Prado
Reviewed by Alison Townsend
Motherlode World’s Best Mother By Nuria Labari; Translated by Katie Whittemore
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen
Repeat Until Funny Broken (in the best possible way) By Jenny Lawson
Reviewed by Jordan Allyn
Drawn Like Teen Spirit Justine: A Novel By Forsyth Harmon
Reviewed by Kait Heacock
Ghost Sickness Dog Flowers: A Memoir By Danielle Geller
Reviewed by Ana Castillo
Listen Up Breathless By Laurie Stone
Tears, Brine Crying in H Mart: A Memoir By Michelle Zauner
Reviewed by Ariel Kim
May/June 2021
Jennifer Baumgardner, Women's Review of Books editor in chief, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
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From the Realms of the Ugly King Kong Theory By Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne
Reviewed by Hanne Blank
Roadside Attraction frank: sonnets By Diane Seuss
Reviewed by Laurie Stone
Scrappy Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes By Claire Wilcox
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
Fable The Hare By Melanie Finn
Reviewed by Pearl McAndrews
Movers and Shakers Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice By Emily Midorikawa
Reviewed by Hannah Joyner
Poetry By Donna Masini
Positive Force Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 By Sarah Schulman
Reviewed by Nino Testa
Commentary Ode To Bechdel By Shira Spector
See No Monsters Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch By Rivka Galchen
Reviewed by Charis Caputo
Eyes Open The Ugly Cry By Danielle Henderson
Reviewed by Kait Heacock
Salt in the Wounds Of Women and Salt By Gabriela Garcia
Reviewed by Lissette Escariz Ferrá
A Novel Thriller The Other Black Girl By Zakya Dalila Harris
Reviewed by Eisa Ulen
We Are No More The Trojan Women: A Comic By Rosanna Bruno and Anne Carson
Reviewed by Noelle McManus
Big The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age By Nicole Aschoff; Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age By Amy Klobuchar
Reviewed by Claire Bond Potter
Listen Up Orange You Glad By Laurie Stone
Pleasurably Stung Walking on Cowrie Shells By Nana Nkweti
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman
A Story of Her Own Self-Portrait By Celia Paul
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne
July/August 2021
Jennifer Baumgardner, Women's Review of Books editor in chief, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
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What Happened? Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore
Reviewed by Charis Caputo
Bohemian Rhapsody Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Identity in New York’s Greenwich Village By Jan Jarboe Russell
Reviewed by Sarah Schulman
Pro Choice Objects of Desire By Clare Sestanovich; Eat the Mouth That Feeds You By Carribean Fragoza
Reviewed by Anjanette Delgado
Don't Die Wondering Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women’s Music By Ginny Z Berson
Reviewed by Shane Snowdon
Streaming Prime Suspects By Laurie Stone
Dead Meat Animal By Lisa Taddeo
Reviewed by Noelle McManus
Exhibition Fellow Traveler Alice Neel: People Come First The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne
Tough Love Girlhood By Melissa Febos
Reviewed by Marian Ryan
Poetry By Caledonia Kearns, Amber Flora Thomas and Rachel Hadas
Yes, She Can Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Journey By Mazie K. Hirono
Reviewed by Hagar Scher
Listen Up Femicide: Old News By Lily Tang
Go There to Know There Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology By Frances Larson;
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century By Charles King
Reviewed by Lisa Mullenneaux
Messy Parts Breasts and Eggs By Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
Reviewed by Laurie Stone
Postmortem On Violence and On Violence Against Women By Jacqueline Rose
Reviewed by Catharine R. Stimpson
The Mid Wayward By Dana Spiotta
Reviewed by Valerie Miner
Drawn Together Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness By Kristen Radtke
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
September/October 2021
Noelle McManus, Women's Review of Books assistant editor, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
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Le Mar y El Mar y La Mar Boomerang / Bumerán By Achy Obejas
Reviewed by Noelle McManus
Unsettling Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion By Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Reviewed by Andrew Needham
Ritual de lo habitual My Begging Chart By Keiler Roberts
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
Ace Freely Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex By Angela Chen
Reviewed by Ariel Kim
To Think Hannah Arendt By Samantha Rose Hill
Reviewed by Katy Fulfer
We (By Which I Mean I) Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage By Eleanor Henderson
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen
On the Move The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free By Paulina Bren; Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am By Julia Cooke
Reviewed by Hannah Joyner
Pop and Precedence The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic By Jessica Hopper
Reviewed by Jacqueline Zeisloft
Stepping Lightly We Want What We Want By Alix Ohlin
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman
The Artist's Why Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles By Beth Pickens
Reviewed by Kait Heacock
Tough Love Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
Poetry By Kathleen Rooney, Linda Bamber, Linda Pastan, and Hilma Wolitzer Commentary by Katha Pollitt
Ireland, Europe, The World, The Universe Beautiful World, Where Are You By Sally Rooney
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne
Field Notes Transforming Parenthood By Heather Hewett
Cunning Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power By Judy Grahn
Reviewed by Lisa L. Moore
Body Product I Live a Life Like Yours By Jan Grue; translated from the Norwegian by B. L. Crook
Reviewed by Laurie Stone
Insider/Insider Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History By Elizabeth Ferrer
Reviewed by Marian Perales
November/December 2021
Jennifer Baumgardner and Charis Caputo, Women's Review of Books editors, give a preview of what's in the current issue:
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Editor's Letter from Jennifer Baumgardner
Editor's Letter from Charis Caputo
She Contains Multitudes Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement By Tarana Burke
Reviewed by Ariel Kim
Streaming The End of Summer, 2021 By Laurie Stone
Record Spring and Autumn Annals By Diane di Prima
Reviewed by Jolie Braun
Against Casually Looking Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist By Patrick Nathan
Reviewed by Kevin O’Rourke
S.O.S. Householders By Kate Cayley
Reviewed by Kait Heacock
Reflect Generations: A Memoir By Lucille Clifton
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney
Liberty and Justice for All The 1619 Project Edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Reviewed by Kelly L. Schmidt
WRB Gift Guide Navigating the Flood
Cradle To Grave Controlling Women: What We Must Do to Save Reproductive Freedom
By Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
Wandering the Desert I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness By Claire Vaye Watkins
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman
No Perfect Place By Lauren Groff
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne
The Body Keeps the Score Quake By Auður Jónsdóttir, translated by Meg Matich
Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
Listen Up Won’t You Be My Neighbor? By Kait Heacock
Inside Out Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and The Politics of Unbecoming By Carly Thomsen
Reviewed by Pearl McAndrews
Cluttered The Book of Form and Emptiness By Ruth Ozeki
Reviewed by Valerie Miner
Poetry By Lisa Mullenneaux, Deborah Hauser, Andrea L. Fry, Karen McPherson, Jessy Randall and Commentary By Katha Pollitt
Field Notes Winter Is Coming: Reading Bryher and H.D. In This Moment By Blanche Wiesen Cook
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