After many years as a social activist, writer and researcher on reproductive choice and the right to control one’s reproductive life, as I have gotten older (and with the death of both of my parents), I have found myself delving into control at the end of one’s life...
Review by Brandye Nobiling From the first essay entitled “Famous Last Words” to the last entitled “DINKS on a Plane,” Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent, edited by New Zealanders Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien, and Kathryn Van Beek, gives...
Review by Nicole Louie A History of Women in 100 Objects starts with a disclaimer: “Women’s history is multifarious, women’s experiences infinitely varied, too wide-ranging to be summarized by 100 objects. The objects we have included provide a starting point for...
Review by Nicole Louie When I started reading Arrangements in Blue, I couldn’t name a single Joni Mitchell song. By the time I finished, I had become quite familiar with her work, and “River” was one of my new favorite songs. In her first nonfiction work, poet Amy Key...
Review by Jill Kaufman Lisa Jansen’s memoir, Life Done Differently: One Woman’s Journey on the Road Less Travelled, is a telling of her personal conversion from a safe, secure job and life that was successful but unfulfilling, to an unconventional lifestyle,...
