RaveJezebelThe women of Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection Her Body and Other Parties are haunted, invisible, stitched together, loved, in love, alone, dead, and alive at the end of the world ...a queer feminist reboot of familiar narratives, a kind of thoughtful pastiche of fairy tales and ghost stories, with urban legends, science fiction, and Law & Order added for appealing effect ...thrilling and page-turning, smart and fearless, and very likely the best book of the year ... The eight stories that compose Machado’s book all tell the tale of women grappling with their identities and bodies, often haunted by both ... Machado is a natural storyteller; she conjures up ghosts and monsters with the same dizzying ease that she depicts both loneliness and vibrant sexuality.
Ivanka Trump
PanJezebelIvanka Trump’s Women Who Work is an incredibly and almost profoundly boring book. Mercifully, for those of us who have jobs to do, it’s also a pretty quick read ... Ivanka’s 'manual for architecting the life you want to live,' written with the intention of changing the 'narrative' around working women ... Because work is amorphous, Trump’s advice on how to be a working woman — and particularly a working mother — is both specific to her understanding of labor and also wildly broad ... Generally, though, Trump spends much of Women Who Work offering up cliche after cliche... She feels more like a living press release for her brand than an actual human being.
