Book Reviews

Featured Reviews

  • Valerie Werder, Thieves

    American Book Review

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  • Lois Banner, Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo

    Film Quarterly

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  • Griselda Pollock, Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting and Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West by Amy Von Lintel & Bonnie Roos

    Woman's Art Journal

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Recent Reviews

  • Suzy Eynon,
    Terrestrial

    Independent Book Review
    March 2026

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  • Lynn Cullen,
    When We Were Brilliant

    Open Letters Review
    February 2026

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  • Scott Eyman,
    Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face

    Open Letters Review
    January 2026

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  • Gabriella Saab,
    The Star Society

    Southern Review of Books
    January 2026

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  • Susan Orlean,
    Joyride

    Open Letters Review
    November 2025

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  • Valerie Werder,
    Thieves

    American Book Review
    October 2025

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Select Reviews Featured by Publishers

My nonfiction reviews have appeared in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830; Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media; Film Quarterly; the Journal of Popular Culture; New Review of Film & Television Studies; Open Letters Review; PopMatters; Popular Culture Studies Journal; Victoriographies; Visual Studies; and Woman’s Art Journal.

My fiction reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Book Review, Harvard Review Online, Heavy Feather Review, Independent Book Review, Necessary Fiction, and the Southern Review of Books.