Women's Review of Books Volume 37, Issue 4

July / August 2020

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Just Friends Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
Reviewed by Grace Ebert

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The Royal Vagina The Mirror and the Light By Hilary Mantel
Reviewed by Charis Caputo

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The Gift Of A Horse Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal By Sarah Maslin Nir
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney

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The White Mouse Code Name Hélène By Ariel Lawhon
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Alone Together Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories By Guadalupe Nettel
Reviewed by Lindsay Semel

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Beginnings And Ends We Had No Rules: Stories By Corinne Manning
Reviewed by Kait Heacock

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Out Of Sight The Death of Vivek Oji By Akwaeke Emezi
Reviewed by Noelle McManus

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Comic Knowledge Is Power By Anastasia Higginbotham
Commentary by Jennifer Baumgardner

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Transing Gender Female Husbands: A Trans History By Jen Manion
Reviewed by James Yukiko Mulder

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Essay Notes From The Pause By Laurie Stone

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Stuff And Its Discontents Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable
World By Christine Harold
Reviewed by Lydia Pyne

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Why We Write Throwing A Sheet Over The Ghost By Cooper Lee Bombardier

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Poetry By Marilyn Hacker and Kim Addonizio
Commentary by Katha Pollitt

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Listen Up In Praise of Shelfies By Leora Tanenbaum

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On The Nightstand Wayétu Moore on What She’s Been Reading