Women's Review of Books
Since 1983, the Women’s Review of Books has been the premier feminist book review and remains proudly a print publication. WRB reviews scholarship as well as fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and memoir usually (but not always) by women. We strive to review a diverse array of books in many fields, genres, and styles for each issue. Edited by feminist author Jennifer Baumgardner and published by the Wellesley Centers for Women in partnership with Old City Publishing, WRB provides a unique perspective on today’s literary world.
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November/December 2020
Jennifer Baumgardner, Women's Review of Books editor in chief, gives a preview of what's in the current issue:
Crime Wave Feminism The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration By Aya Gruber
Reviewed by Charis Caputo
Personal Jesus The Secret Lives of Church Ladies By Deesha Philyaw
Reviewed by Mariam I. Williams
Plathology Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story By Sylvia Plath; Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath By Heather Clark
Reviewed by Lisa Mullenneaux
Interview Kill Thrill: An Interview With Crime Author Emily Schultz By Kait Heacock
Pamela's House Funeral Diva By Pamela Sneed
Reviewed by Rachel Levitsky
Pulling Out the Sutures Places I’ve Taken My Body By Molly McCully Brown
Reviewed by Noelle McManus
Poetry By Molly Peacock
Commentary By Katha Pollitt
WRB Gift Guide Book Ideas for Corona-mas and Pandemukah
Strike Force Feminist International: How to Change Everything By Verónica Gago, Translated By Liz Mason-Deese
Reviewed by Laura V. Eley
De-Petrification Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country By Cristina Rivera Garza, Translated By Sarah Booker
Reviewed by Lindsay Semel
Poetry By Kim Addonizio
Meh-Too The League of Super Feminists By Mirion Malle, Translated by Aleshia Jensen
Reviewed by Amy Watkin
Complex Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto By Legacy Russell
Reviewed by Hanne Blank
Creature Discomforts Crushing It By Jennifer Knox
Reviewed by Natalia Conte
Black Magic The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Reviewed by Chimene Ntakarutimana
Schrödinger's Author My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog By Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Translated by Megan McDowell
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman
The Poetesses Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women’s Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America By Elissa Zellinger
Reviewed by Kirun Kapur
Listen Up Postcard From Now, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 By Laurie Stone
Bonus Op-Ed (Not Part of Issue) The Toobin Thing By Laurie Stone
The Women's Review of Books receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
