THIRTY WAYS OF LOOKING AT HILLARY: REFLECTIONS BY WOMEN WRITERS
Edited by Susan Morrison
HarperCollins, 254 pages, $ 23.95
Let’s imagine this book’s concept—30 well-known women writers talk about how they “feel” about Hillary Clinton—applied to 30 male writers and a male presidential candidate. Adjusting for gender, the essay titles would now read: “Barack’s Underpants,” Read More
WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY
By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Alfred A. Knopf, 284 pages, $24
It can be a mistake to judge a career by its covers, but Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s book jackets tell a curious story.
Her most famous work, A Midwife’s Tale (1990), is adorned with the labored script of an Read More
Political Fictions , by Joan Didion. Alfred A. Knopf, 338 pages, $25.
In the foreword to Political Fictions , Joan Didion’s latest collection of essays, she recalls an Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole escapade searching for Jesse Jackson’s plane at the Newark Airport during the 1988 Presidential campaign. She queries agents who send her to other agents who know Read More
Already the story of President Bill Clinton’s alleged “sex scandal” has been framed as a clear-cut case of the sex war, with wronged women who aren’t gonna suffer in silence on one side, and on the other, heartless male scoundrels who are doing their best to clap their slimy hands over the women’s mouths. As Read More
