Helen Epstein
Virginia Giuffre’s memoir is a grim indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and the cruel and powerful men (most of them still unnamed in public) who were his clients.
This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention.
“I wanted, with this opera, to see if audiences and collaborators could feel something about our changing weather, in an artistic space.”
This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.
The rewards are slight in new politically-minded books by a pair of shrewd and perceptive women.
So much of David Sakura’s narrative in Shared Spaces reminded me of the stories of other traumatized groups.
Sarah Polley’s essay on sexual assault by itself is worth the price of the book, essential reading for anyone interested in the physical and psychological after-effects of violence against women.
Just after Covid arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021.
This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.
Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
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