Reviews
Rethinking American Girlhood Through Relatable Girls’ Fiction
Dixie Dillon Lane reviews Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century by LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Bloomsbury, 2024)
A Vivrant Thing
Elizabeth Stice reviews There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House, 2024)
Literary Ascents and the Human Search for Meaning
Sarah Selden reviews Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Fall in Love with a Doomed Arctic Explorer: Time Travel Edition
Cecelia Larsen reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
An Exquisite Chronicle of an Ordinary American Family
Jenifer Elmore reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler (Vintage, 2022)
The Rising Temperatures Before the French Revolution
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton (W.W. Norton & Co., 2023)
Lévy’s Vision
Michael Jimenez reviews The Will to See by Bernard-Henri Lévy (Yale University Press, 2023)
Alternate Histories: An Alternate History
Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Scribner, 2023)
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