Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."Beloved is every bit as heart-rending, beautiful, and erudite as I expected. It’s incredibly brilliant from a technical, writerly standpoint. I also appreciated its weaponization of the gothic novel genre for racial justice and black feminist purposes. In the gothic novel of the 18th/19th centuries, we often see captured women... more >>
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Cressy, David
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Parsons, Brad Thomas
Black in Place
Summers,Brandi Thompson
Made me think about:
- Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
Scholz, Susanne