Ganz großartiger witziger Entwicklungsroman über eine junge Engländerin, die in den 70ern & frühen 80ern zwischen Feminismus & Misogynie versucht, ihr Leben auf die Reihe zu kriegen. Aber CN: Kindstod.
#Literature #novel #comingofage #womenwriting #femaleauthor

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e31acd49-282e-4434-bb5b-c8a24910325a

Klassisch und streng theologisch-philosophisch argumentierende Texte haben ja gerade ein Comeback. Und zwar nicht nur bei Katholischens. Ich habe gerade diesen Essay-Band von Marilynne Robinson gelesen und fand den sehr toll.

#literature #essays #theology #philosophy #metaphysics #womenwriting #protestantism

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7a97627f-2e33-4fb7-bab0-5fede7a86840?redirect=true

🎴 "A battle greater, grander far / Is for the present age;"
at @citapress
A Q&A with Eunice Toh of #DigBlk on transcription, community & public memory; the extraordinary Frances E.W. Harper, Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Harriet Powers.
#Literature #WomenWriting

https://citapress.substack.com/p/a-battle-greater-grander-far-is-for

The men pushed against the wall and Lloyd gripped the sides of the boat, digging his fingers into the canvas and tar, into the coarse fragility of a homemade boat as it headed out into the Atlantic Ocean, into the strangeness, the unfamiliar
the not
willowed rivers
coxswains callings
muscled shoulders, tanned skin
sunglasses, caps and counting
not that
the familiar
no

Audrey Magee
The Colony

#literature #books #womenwriting #nowreading

Apologies for linking to the birdsite but nice to be mentioned in this fine list.

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