Updating the ‘You Go Girl’ Book Collection
New children’s books published to mark the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary provide a wider lens than Alice Paul and dig deeper than “Girls Rule!”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Feeling Deluged By News? Let 'The Daughters Of Ys' Wash Over You
M.T. Anderson's new graphic novel — with gorgeous art by Jo Rioux — adapts the old legend of the drowned city of Ys, giving it better, fuller female characters and a timely environmental message.
(Image credit: First Second)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Music and the Mirror
In Hope Larson’s graphic novel “All Together Now,” an eighth-grade singer-songwriter struggles to find her voice after the band she started breaks up.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Bone Up on Shakespeare, With a Skeleton and His Ankle-Nibbling Nemesis
Jeremy and Hermione Tankard’s “Yorick and Bones: The Last Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare” is poignant tickle-your-ribs entertainment.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest
Lessing’s 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World
The acclaimed novelist and story writer, who died in 2003, depicted the everyday experiences and domestic concerns of women — themes that deserve more literary recognition.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones
A.O. Scott talks about Jones’s work and the American experience, and Eric Jay Dolin discusses “A Furious Sky.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Plucky Characters? Ugh. Make Mine Prickly and Difficult.
Marilyn Stasio finds much to like in the latest batch of crime novels, filled with abrasive, unpleasant sorts.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
How the Battle for Women’s Suffrage Played Out in the Pages of the Book Review
What did our critics think of the histories, memoirs and novels that explored the road to the 19th Amendment?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis
Roger Moorhouse’s “Poland 1939” looks back at the very beginning of World War II to understand what happened and what might have happened.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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