In Sarit Yishai-Levi’s sprawling historical novel "The Woman Beyond the Sea", three generations of women consider what it means to love and the power of knowing your history. Although its chapters are narrated by a rotating cast, the... Read More
Otherworldly encounters transform a teenager’s new life in Clyde Boyer’s science fiction novel "Girl Out of Time". Anna’s head has always been up past the stratosphere, but when her parents die, she’s forced to come back down to... Read More
Out of the cloister and into the world, a young nun with a tragic past is presented with a chance for a new beginning in Anna Quinn’s novel "Angeline". After taking vows to escape losses that she cannot talk about, Angeline fades into... Read More
In his Christian studies text "Tell Her Story", Nijay K. Gupta retells the stories of the Bible’s women leaders. Covering women leaders in the time before the early church and women leaders of the early church, and with a section that... Read More
Mournful, yearning, and reflective, the essays of S. L. Wisenberg’s "The Wandering Womb" wonder through Jewish women’s realities in the diaspora. Wisenberg—the descendant of Russian Jews who immigrated to the American South in the... Read More
The historical biographies collected in Elizabeth Cobbs’s "Fearless Women" cover those who advanced women’s rights at each stage in American history. Arguing for broader definitions of feminism and patriotism that encompass their... Read More
Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Ruby Warrington’s "Women Without Kids" concerns the reality of being childless today. After years of fielding the question of when she’d have kids, Warrington started digging into the social... Read More
"Shopomania" is Paul Berton’s satirical dive into the history and psychology of modern consumerism. Making the case that people’s innate desire to obtain more land, food, and materials is the main driver of human advancement,... Read More