Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More

Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More

Diverse women throughout history are celebrated in the intimate profiles collected in "The Unique Women of the Venetian Republic". Connie Spenuzza’s "The Unique Women of the Venetian Republic" is a sumptuous historical review that... Read More

Authentic and natural, the poetry collection "Cage of Bone" engages the discomfort of confronting every part of one’s story. In Irena Praitis’s poetry collection "Cage of Bone", the human body is a container for haunting tragedies... Read More

Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death sentence she avoided. In college, she and her roommate survived... Read More

Art historian Noah Charney’s book "Brushed Aside" is a colorful overview of underrecognized women artists and art influencers throughout history. While an estimated 75 percent of the human handprints found with cave paintings belonged... Read More

"The Mirrored Door" is an insightful self-help book that exposes, and enables pushing past, the particular barriers that women in business face. Ellen Connelly Taaffe’s business book "The Mirrored Door" concerns the particular barriers... Read More