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Attention Must Be Paid

Sue Grafton

May 31, 2025

A woman who once cheerfully signed one of her books "To E. Rose Nelson, budding author," for which she has my undying devotion.

Coming of Age on Mars: Unboxing Libby

May 27, 2025

Steph Cherrywell's fun sci-fi kid-lit novel manages to be both a specific queer allegory and a universal coming-of-age story (with a pointed critique of late-stage capitalism).

Year of the Month

Beautiful, Radiant Gods: D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

May 19, 2025

A straightforward explainer that's anything but dull.

Attention Must Be Paid

Gyo Fujikawa

April 19, 2025

Not even the website named for her has more than one fuzzy image of Gyo Fujikawa, but her art is everywhere.

Year of the Month

The Well of Loneliness

March 30, 2025

People love to debate the ending, but the best part of this lesbian classic is the beginning.

Silent Era Month

Peter and Wendy

March 27, 2025

“Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.”

Intrusive Thoughts

Domina: Feminism in the Detective Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers

March 26, 2025

Despite her main character's being male, Dorothy L. Sayers wrote feminism as one of the most frequent themes in her books.

Intersectional Femivision

Malicious Minimalism: Three Suspense Novels by Celia Dale

March 25, 2025

Putting the cruelty back in crime.

Intersectional Femivision

Please Continue to Work Hard!

March 24, 2025

The genre-twisting comedy of The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System.

Intersectional Femivision

Let’s Talk About Sex(y Books)

March 17, 2025

BookTok and the latest moral panic.

Year of the Month

More than Coincidence: Something New

March 11, 2025

P.G. Wodehouse takes his first visit to Blandings Castle.

Intrusive Thoughts

Adventures in Room 407: The Girls of Canby Hall

March 5, 2025

An extremely '80s series about girls in a boarding school.