For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Elaine Showalter

From the April 2000 Issue

Epic Fairy Tale Told as a Shakespearian Tragedy

Blonde

By Joyce Carol Oates

From the November 2017 Issue

Sunny Sylvia

The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956

By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd)

From the October 1998 Issue

Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By Jane Smiley

From the August 2015 Issue

Death of a Mockingbird

Go Set a Watchman

By Harper Lee

From the May 2003 Issue

Creative Juices

Seek My Face

By John Updike

From the November 2014 Issue

One from the Heartland

Some Luck

By Jane Smiley

From the March 2011 Issue

Paradise Unachieved

Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

By Richard Francis

From the March 2010 Issue

China Girl

Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck’s Life in China

By Hilary Spurling

From the December 2009 Issue

Her Short Story

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor

By Brad Gooch

From the October 2009 Issue

Brinkmanship

A Gate at the Stairs

By Lorrie Moore

From the December 2008 Issue

‘I Create Myself’

Reborn: Early Diaries 1947–1964

By Susan Sontag

From the September 2008 Issue

Life on the Range

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories

By Annie Proulx

From the February 2005 Issue

A Mother’s Love

Runaway

By Alice Munro

From the May 2012 Issue

From the Pulpit

When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays

By Marilynne Robinson