'Hope': A Comic Novel About The Holocaust?

by Maureen Corrigan, NPR, USA - As he surely intended, Shalom Auslander opens up a whole big can of slimy moral and aesthetic dilemmas in his debut novel Hope: A Tragedy. Maybe plunking Anne Frank down in your novel —...

Posted by intern on January 11, 2012 9:29 PM

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

by Melissa Harris-Perry, Yale University Press, - USA "Melissa Harris-Perry is one of our most trenchant readers of modern black life. In Sister Citizen, she gives new life to the idea that 'the personal is political.' This book will change...

Posted by intern on December 14, 2011 7:37 PM

Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

by Susan Smartt Cook, Yes!, USA - Review: Ina May Gaskin, the mother of modern midwifery, calls for a return to woman-centered birth culture in her new book....

Posted by intern on October 25, 2011 12:27 PM