Women's Review of Books Volume 38, Issue 3

May / June 2021

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From the Realms of the Ugly King Kong Theory By Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne
Reviewed by Hanne Blank

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Roadside Attraction frank: sonnets By Diane Seuss
Reviewed by Laurie Stone

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Scrappy Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes By Claire Wilcox
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney

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Fable The Hare By Melanie Finn
Reviewed by Pearl McAndrews

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Movers And Shakers Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice By Emily Midorikawa
Reviewed by Hannah Joyner

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Poetry
By Donna Masini

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Positive Force Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 1993 By Sarah Schulman
Reviewed by Nino Testa

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Commentary Ode To Bechdel
By Shira Spector

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See No Monsters Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch By Rivka Galchen
Reviewed by Charis Caputo

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Eyes Open The Ugly Cry By Danielle Henderson
Reviewed by Kait Heacock

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Salt In The Wounds Of Women and Salt By Gabriela Garcia
Reviewed by Lissette Escariz Ferrá

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A Novel Thriller The Other Black Girl By Zakya Dalila Harris
Reviewed by Eisa Ulen

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We Are No More The Trojan Women: A Comic By Rosanna Bruno and Anne Carson
Reviewed by Noelle McManus

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Big The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age By Nicole Aschoff; Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital AgeBy Amy Klobuchar
Reviewed by Claire Bond Potter

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Listen Up Orange You Glad
By Laurie Stone

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Pleasurably Stung Walking on Cowrie Shells By Nana Nkweti
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman

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A Story Of Her Own Self-Portrait By Celia Paul
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne