Dubravka Ugrešić Bites the Hand That Muzzles Women
In the grimly funny collection of conversations in Muzzle for Witches, Dubravka Ugrešić bites the hand that muzzles women.
feminist literature
Unearthing Author Margery Latimer’s Body of Work
Margery Latimer’s 20th-century feminist literature is sympathetic and even empathetic toward her women characters–and implicitly judgmental.
This Sybille Bedford Biography Is Worthy of Its Subject
Masterful writer Sybille Bedford finally gets a biography as rich and expansive as her life from Selina Hastings.
Alvarez’s ‘In The Time of the Butterflies’ Returns with Undiminished Intensity
The lure of beautiful beaches might make the Dominican Republic among the most popular tourist destinations in the Caribbean, but the ghosts of its troubled history, as captured in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, stalk the living.
Library of America Rethinks Women and the Hard Boiled Tradition in New Set of Women’s Crime Writing
This box set represents a nuanced perspective not only of the crime fiction genre, but of women's contributions to mid-century American culture.