Tag: Texts & Human Experiences

Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

An inventive reimagining of Shakespeare’s heroines (mini-review)

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

Compelling post #MeToo verse novel (mini-review)

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

A powerful & confronting verse memoir (mini-review)

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

A sensitive story about being torn between the old & the new (mini-review)

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Mary Frankenstein, late Victorian science and dinosaurs (mini-review)

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Engaging historical fiction about deception, privilege & colonialism (mini-review)

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

A dark & funny story of memory, power & oppression (mini-review)

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Love in a Cold Climate meets The Gilmore Girls in 1930s New York (mini-review)

The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch

Gripping, page-turning Ground Hog Day #MeToo narrative (mini-review)

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Beautifully written retelling of ‘My Last Duchess’ (mini-review)