Women's Review of Books Volume 38, Issue 2

May/June 2021

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The Outsiders
The Mermaid and the Minotaur By Dorothy Dinnerstein
Reviewed by Vivian Gornick

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Rage Becomes Her
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney

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Rebel Girl
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy By Leslie Brody
Reviewed by Claire Bond Potter

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Underground in Amerika
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America By Josephine Donovan
Reviewed by Nino Testa

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Jazz Matriarch
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams By Tammy L. Kernodle; Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams By Linda Dahl
Reviewed by Meisha Rosenberg

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Sister Act
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. Nimura
Reviewed by Celeste Chamberland

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Interview
Warp And Weft: An Interview with Graphic Author Shira Spector By Tahneer Oksman

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The Creative
Weather: a poem / a chronicle By Holly Prado
Reviewed by Alison Townsend

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Motherlode
World’s Best Mother By Nuria Labari; Translated by Katie Whittemore
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen

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Repeat Until Funny
Broken (in the best possible way) By Jenny Lawson
Reviewed by Jordan Allyn

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Drawn Like Teen Spirit
Justine: A Novel By Forsyth Harmon
Reviewed by Kait Heacock

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Ghost Sickness
Dog Flowers: A Memoir By Danielle Geller
Reviewed by Ana Castillo

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Poetry

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Listen Up
Breathless By Laurie Stone

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Tears, Brine
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir By Michelle Zauner
Reviewed by Ariel Kim