Catherine Gammon’s fifth book The Martyrs, the Lovers tells the fascinating story of Petra Kelly, a modern-day Joan of Arc who stood up to the powers that be, and who dedicated her life to causes we are still fighting for. Kelly’s life and mysterious death are carefully reconstructed in a way that is deeply resonant for our current day and age.
Author: Geri Lipschultz
Geri Lipschultz has published in the New York Times, the Toast, Black Warrior Review, College English and others. Her work appears in Pearson’s Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing and in Spuyten Duyvil’s The Wreckage of Reason II. She teaches writing at Hunter College and Borough of Manhattan Community College. Geri was awarded a Creative Artists in Public Service grant from New York State. Her one-woman show "Once Upon the Present Time" was produced in NYC by Woodie King, Jr.
Of Women Who Walk: The Feelings Of Freedom and Fear
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women acknowledges the concurrent dreams and fears of women to experience the world with the privilege given to men—that privilege of power in the natural world. That privilege to do whatever it is we wish to do, see what we wish to see, for whatever our purpose, in safety, without being limited by our vulnerabilities or worrying for our lives.
The layers of history here arise from Abbs’s perspective that rivets for the richness of her inquiry, her persistence, her interaction with the works of her chosen women—and the fact that she walks their walks.
“What a Wonderful World This Could Be”: A Tale of Love, Activism and Family in the Turbulent ’60s
Lee Zacharias’ novel, “What a Wonderful World this Could Be,” weaves a tale of love, activism and family in front of a background of the turbulent ’60s.
Winter at the Heart of Appalachian Spring
Alison’s Stine’s debut novel “Road Out of Winter” is a book whose setting compels the reader to keep reading—both for the devastation of the current state of affairs, and for the mournfully beautiful loss. Rather than the warming that has been on our radar for decades, or the deadly fear of a nuclear holocaust, or even the coronavirus debacle pickling our planet, Stine’s is a world that has painted Appalachia, an already impoverished farming community, white with snow—all year, for the second year in a row.
How to Be Yourself and Change the World in the Process
In Stephanie Davies’s coming of age, coming-out memoir, “Other Girls Like Me,” she recounts her involvement with the Greenham common peace camp in Great Britain. Davies’s involvement in this activist movement pulled her into a reimagining of self and helps her to heal the exacerbated relationship with her family.
“See No Stranger”: To Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable
A Review of Valarie Kaur’s “See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love”: Embedded in this compendium of stories, theories, philosophies, practices and prayer-poems, is both an East Asian and U.S. history told through the lens of a courageous, young, female Sikh activist, filmmaker and lawyer. The narrative is a weaving of stories with an infusion of Sikh culture and feminist theory, grounded in scholarship and extensive footwork.
Dispatches from an NYC (Virtual) Classroom: Teaching in the Time of COVID
“My NYC community college students are struggling to survive, some of them literally. As a writer myself, and as a teacher of writing for almost forty years, I’m always reminded: When there is nothing left to hold onto, sometimes there are words.”
A Light into the Negative Space
One does not open a book by Lidia Yuknavitch carelessly. Just as one does not bend down to pick up a child carelessly, or a sculpture of a child carelessly, or the coffin of a child carelessly. There is weight, almost too much weight to bear, in a Lidia Yuknavitch book.
The Voices of Collateral Damage
What makes Abigail DeWitt’s “News of Our Loved Ones” compelling is the compression of the story, the variety of points of view and the sheer elegance of the prose that transforms her own family’s history—and world history along with it—into a powerful act of fiction.