by envisionmg | May 12, 2017 | Reading Intersections
Start Here: Lauren Elkin. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London. 2017. “The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse...
by envisionmg | Jun 9, 2016 | Reading Intersections
The mouth of this particular rabbit hole gaped wider with each page turned in Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls. The book’s tight focus follows several women as their computer skills helped make space flight possible, but the shutter opens to reveal a good...
by envisionmg | May 13, 2016 | Fiction, Mystery, Reading Intersections
Sadly, I have to wait however long — and however long will be too long, I assure you — for series three of Grantchester, starring James Norton and Robson Green. (Withdrawal pangs struck not even a minute after the last scene of series two was consumed by...
by envisionmg | Apr 19, 2016 | Reading Intersections
No sooner did the credits finish rolling on the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None that I wanted to watch it again. And then again after that. In point of fact, I didn’t want to stop watching it, ever, if possible. (Which made...
by envisionmg | Apr 13, 2016 | Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
Bakewell’s new book on Sartre, Beauvoir, and Company blinked onto my radar several months ago and stayed there, but it wasn’t until I read The Bookseller’s interview with the author, and then a Beauvoir-centric excerpt, that the book went from under...
by envisionmg | Feb 15, 2016 | Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
After many years spent traveling and reporting on the considerable number of life-altering events of her era, Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, passed away on this day in 1998, at the age of 89. Gellhorn began as a novelist before turning to journalism, had the...
