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    Sticks And Stones

    Julie Powell: "Somehow, it seems to me, there's something particularly eye-opening about the pans for Cleaving...some way in which writing about the book seems to reveal as much or more about the reviewer as about the book being reviewed." [XX]
    12/08/09
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    By Sadie
  • #bookreviews

    Changing My Mind: On Fiction, Race, And How 50 Cent Is Like Samuel Beckett

    Zadie Smith established herself as a literary wunderkind when she published White Teeth at the age of 25. Her collection of essays on topics ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to 50 Cent shows she's grown into something more. More »
    12/03/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #etiquette

    The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review

    Obviously, we ordered this newly-reissued book immediately, eager for advice. Yes, Edward Gorey, the master of pen-and-ink, tackles what to say after Deflowerment-by-Marimba-Player, Deflowerment-on-Cross-Country-Bus, and, obviously, Deflowerment-at-Seance. But the modern age has wraught a whole new batch of dubious occasions: More »
    11/18/09
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    By Sadie
  • #bookreviews

    Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again

    Is there anything left to say about Sarah Palin? Going Rouge, the just-released liberal answer to Palin's memoir, has something to say, which is that strikingly little has changed about her a year later. That's both good and bad news. More »
    11/18/09
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    By Irin
  • #bookreviews

    "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1

    Carrie Prejean has complained of being "Palinized" — that is, discriminated against because she's a conservative woman — but she and Sarah Palin have more in common than just a victim complex. More »
    11/18/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #litlists

    Is It Time To Stop Listing "Best" Books?

    Publishers Weekly didn't include any female authors on its list of the 10 best books of 2009. Is a counter-list in order, or should we just do away with such lists entirely? More »
    11/06/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Superfreakonomics: Not That Super Or Freaky

    Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of Superfreakonomics, cast themselves as iconoclastic contrarians. But in many ways, their book is actually pretty conventional. More »
    11/04/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #fleshforfantasy

    Am I Dating A Werewolf? And Other Questions For Francesca Lia Block

    You may scoff at the mere idea of a dating guidebook. You may almost certainly scoff at one that matches people by their mythological creature -type. I did too at first, and I have a professional astrologer on speed-dial. More »
    11/02/09
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    By Emily Gould
  • #bookreviews

    Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking

    According to Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided, the much-vaunted "power of positive thinking" won't cure cancer, make us rich, or necessarily even keep us happy. In fact, it may be harming us. More »
    10/21/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Impossible Motherhood: An "Abortion Addict" Tells Her Story

    In Impossible Motherhood, Irene Vilar writes, "I want to explore how when abortion takes on repetitive and self-mutilating qualities it can point to an addiction." But her book is really an exploration of a single tragedy-stricken life. More »
    10/07/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Prospect Park West: In Park Slope, Hell Is Other Parents

    In the much-ballyhooed Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn welcomes her readers to Park Slope, where the women are mean, the men are asexual, and all the children wear kneepads. More »
    09/23/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Mad, Bad & Sad: History Of Female Mental Illness Turns Into Indictment Of Psychotherapy

    From force-feeding to tooth removal to stomach surgery, mental patients throughout history — many of them women — have endured some pretty horrific therapies. In Mad, Bad & Sad, Lisa Appignanesi questions whether modern treatments are much better. More »
    09/09/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    The Gift Of Fear: How To Prevent Another Gym Rampage

    The gym where George Sodini went on his shooting rampage reopened this weekend, and today, we look at a book that some believe could help prevent future violence there and everywhere: Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear. More »
    08/24/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Everything Sucks: Why Americans Love Prep School Stories

    Hannah Friedman's Everything Sucks is billed as the anti-Gossip Girl, but it speaks to the same cultural obsession: a combined envy of and disgust for the very rich and very young. More »
    08/13/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Are All Female Friends Really Frenemies?

    I'm So Happy For You, a new novel by novelist Lucinda Rosenfeld, makes female friendships seem like a supremely unpleasant, never-ending status game. More »
    06/25/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Wintergirls: Possibly Triggering, Definitely Thought-Provoking

    Is Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson's young adult novel about anorexia and bulimia, a dangerous trigger for eating-disordered readers, a thoughtful examination of a terrible disease, or both? We read it to find out. [Spoilers follow.] More »
    05/19/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #ayeletwaldman

    Bad Mother, Good Writer

    "A good mother [...] doesn't need her kids to like her all the time. Of writers and their readers, Waldman's book leaves me thinking, the same might be true." — Susan Dominus [NYT]
    05/11/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Bad Mother Promises "Maternal Crimes," Delivers Misdemeanors

    Ayelet Waldman, who famously wrote about loving her husband more than her kids, just published Bad Mother, a parenting memoir she describes as a "f&%k you to the insane Urban-Baby types." More »
    05/08/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: Maybe Not Such A Bad Girl After All

    In Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Jennifer Scanlon tries hard to make Helen Gurley Brown look like an unjustly overlooked feminist icon — and she kind of succeeds. More »
    05/04/09
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    By Anna N.
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