Women's Review of Books Volume 38, Issue 5

September / October 2021

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Le Mar Y El Mar Y La Mar Boomerang / Bumerán By Achy Obejas
Reviewed by Noelle McManus

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Unsettling Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion By Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Reviewed by Andrew Needham

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Ritual De Lo Habitual My Begging Chart By Keiler Roberts
Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney

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Ace Freely Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex By Angela Chen
Reviewed by Ariel Kim

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To Think Hannah Arendt By Samantha Rose Hill
Reviewed by Katy Fulfer

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We (By Which I Mean I) Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage By Eleanor Henderson
Reviewed by Anna Godbersen

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On The Move The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free By Paulina Bren; Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am By Julia Cooke
Reviewed by Hannah Joyner

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Pop And Precedence The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic By Jessica Hopper
Reviewed by Jacqueline Zeisloft

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Stepping Lightly We Want What We Want By Alix Ohlin
Reviewed by Rebecca Saltzman

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The Artist’s Why Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles By Beth Pickens
Reviewed by Kait Heacock

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Tough Love Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader

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Poetry By Kathleen Rooney, Linda Bamber, Linda Pastan, and Hilma Wolitzer
Commentary by Katha Pollitt

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Ireland, Europe, The World, The Universe Beautiful World, Where Are You By Sally Rooney
Reviewed by Cynthia Payne

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Field Notes Transforming Parenthood
By Heather Hewett

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Cunning Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power By Judy Grahn
Reviewed by Lisa L. Moore

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Body Product I Live a Life Like Yours By Jan Grue; translated from the Norwegian by B. L. Crook
Reviewed by Laurie Stone

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Insider/Insider Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History By Elizabeth Ferrer
Reviewed by Marian Perales