Revisiting A Room of Our Own by Virginia Woolf: an essay by Hannah Joyner (forthcoming).
Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today by Scott Spillman. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, 10 March 2025.
Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall Fuller. In Open Letters Review, 23 January 2025.
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill. In Open Letters Review, 19 January 2025.
Write Like a Man by Ronnie Grinberg: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie Grinberg. In Open Letters Review, 28 May 2024.
To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman. In Open Letters Review, 26 April 2024.
The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell. In Open Letters Review, 27 March 2024.
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn. In Open Letters Review, 7 March 2024.
Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor. In Open Letters Review, 14 January 2024.
Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches by Allyson Shaw. In Open Letters Review, 31 October 2023.
The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle. In Open Letters Review, 16 August 2023.
Benefit by Siobhan Phillips. In On the Seawall, June 2022.
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau by Ben Shattuck. In On the Seawall, April 2022.
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, April 2022.
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk. In the Minnesota Star Tribune, March 2022.
The Fell: A Novel by Sarah Moss. In the Minnesota Star Tribune, March 2022.
The City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey. In On the Seawall, February 2022.
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2022.
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind “The Raisin in the Sun” by Charles Shield. In the Chicago Review of Books, January 2022.
The Latinist by Mark Prins. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2022.
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salana. In On the Seawall, November 2021.
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2021.
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit. In On the Seawall, October 2021.
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. In the Harvard Review, October 2021.
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, edited by Merve Emre. In On the Seawall, 8 September 2021.
“Women on the Move”: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren and Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke. In the Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 38, no. 5 (September/October 2021).
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson. In On the Seawall, 24 August 2021.
Burning Man: The Trials of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson. In the Chicago Review of Books, 17 August 2021.
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Sian Evans. In the Minnesota Star Tribune, 8 August 2021.
Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman by Melanie Kirkpatrick. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, 4 August 2021.
“As I Lay Trying: Learning to Read Faulkner in the Era of Black Lives Matter”: a discussion of The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra. In the Washington Independent Review of Books, 10 June 2021.
“A Cosmic Connection”: The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Anne McCutchan. In Deep South Magazine, 25 May 2021.
“Movers and Shakers”: Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice by Emily Midorikawa. In Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 38, no. 3 (May/June 2021).
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans. In Open Letters Review, 6 March 2021.
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene. In Open Letters Review, 31 January 2021.
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in a Time of Disruption by Robert McCrum. In Open Letters Review, 26 January 2021.
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson. In Open Letters Review, 24 December 2020.
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Rereader by Vivian Gornick. In Open Letters Review, 2 September 2020.
Austen Years: A Memoir in 5 Novels by Rachel Cohen. In Open Letters Review, 8 August 2020.
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous. In Open Letters Review, 29 July 2020.
Thin Places: Essays from In Between by Jordan Kisner. In Open Letters Review, 18 July 2020.
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty. In Open Letters Review, 6 July 2020.
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland. In Open Letters Review, 12 June 2020.
What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty. In Open Letters Review, 29 April 2020.
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann. In Open Letters Review, 13 April 2020.
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild. In Open Letters Review, 18 March 2020.
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