Reviews
In Which Girls Save the Day
Cecelia Larsen reviews Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second, 2024) and Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 2024)
Bring us M.A.R.S*! *More Actual Research and Science
Matthew Sparacio reviews A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin, 2023)
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’s
Literary Ascents and the Human Search for Meaning
Sarah Selden reviews Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
Fall in Love with a Doomed Arctic Explorer: Time Travel Edition
Larsen reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
An Exquisite Chronicle of an Ordinary American Family
Jenifer Elmore reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler
The Rising Temperatures Before the French Revolution
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton
Lévy’s Vision
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new book, The Will to See, reviewed by Michael Jimenez.
Alternate Histories: An Alternate History
Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford