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Andrea Dworkin, Ed. by Joanna Fateman and Amy Scholder
Rave Bustle Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin ... [is] a book that a new generation of feminists should want to get their hands on ... It charts the evolution of a feminist writer and thinker who was so much more than the sometimes-accurate ideas attributed to her. It celebrates, as Fateman writes in the introduction to Last Days at Hot Slit, the \'apocalyptic, middle-finger appeal of her prose.\' If you misunderstand Dworkin after reading this anthology, you’re not trying ... Last Days at Hot Slit presents Dworkin as the furious, depressed, inquisitive, dare I say optimist, who she was.
Sophie Mackintosh
Rave Bustle \"The Water Cure is searing and ethereal, poetic and furious ... For anyone discouraged by the myriad headlines of 2018, fatigued by the near-constant rage expected of and experienced by women, and looking for something to reawaken their angry feminist fighter in 2019, this January novel is one place to start.\
Sohaila Abdulali
Positive Bustle Asks important questions about the ways we navigate — or don’t — rape: personally, socially, culturally, politically ... It\'s that international conversation: the global analysis of rape, the globalization of the #MeToo movement, that makes Abdulali’s book especially timely, and somewhat unique.
Katherine J Chen
Positive Bustle This is the Mary Bennet familiar to readers, and it is a direct result of her seeming powerlessness and unremarkability that, in Chen’s reimagining, Mary experiences more of the world than the other four Bennet girls together. Living constantly under the radar, Mary is able to live a life nobody would suspect of her: one of scandal, tragedy, and even romance ... Chen’s retelling of Pride and Prejudice is of a far more modern feminism; one in which Mary is able to achieve what was so impossible for so many of her generation: the life of a truly independent—economically self-reliant and sexually liberated—woman.
Meredith Goldstein
Rave Bustle \"In Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist, out April 3 from Grand Central Publishing, Goldstein gets even more intimate with her readers. Can’t Help Myself is part-memoir of family, love, and finding yourself; part collection of some of Love Letters’ most memorable columns; part history of the origins of the column itself. It’s funny, it’s enormously relatable, it’ll make you want to subscribe to The Boston Globe immediately.\