Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More

Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More