Women's Review of Books Volume 38, Issue 1

January / February 2021

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Friend, Foe, Fetish
Fat By Hanne Blank
Reviewed by Ariel Kim

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Awake
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic By Kenya Hunt
Reviewed by Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa

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Uncertainty Principle
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader By Vivian Gornick
Reviewed by Laurie Stone

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Ice Poetica
The Freezer Door By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney

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Bionic Woman
Bright and Dangerous Objects By Anneliese Mackintosh
Reviewed by Elisa Faison

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Mother Of Exiles
Ellis Island: A People’s History By Małgorzata Szejnert, translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
Reviewed by Beth Holmgren

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Poetry By Erin Belieu
Commentary By Katha Pollitt

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Photography
Strange Fruit: Photographs By Nicole Buchanan
Commentary By Ellen Feldman

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North’s West
Outlawed By Anna North
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen

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Poetry By Victoria M. Washington, Rebecca Morgan Frank,
and Merridawn Duckler
Commentary By Katha Pollitt

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Lucid Dreaming
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void By Jackie Wang
Reviewed by Maria Bobbitt-Chertock

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System Ick
Launching While Female: Smashing the System that Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back
By Susanne Althoff
Reviewed by Brooke Warner

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Honor the Birth
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century By Brianna Theobald
Reviewed by Andrea Ringer

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At Home in the Entire World
Rosa Luxemburg By Dana Mills
Reviewed by Charis Caputo

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Black Noise
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds By Jayna Brown
Reviewed by K. Avvirin Gray

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Television
Lovecraft Country Adapted by Marsha Green from a novel by Matt Ruff
Reviewed by Kovie Biakolo