Book Reviews

Recent Reviews

  • Kathleen Spaltro,
    Ethel Barrymore: Shy Empress of the Footlights

    PopMatters
    May 2026

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  • Jayne Anne Phillips,
    Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir

    Southern Review of Books
    April 2026

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  • Marian Mitchell Donahue,
    Backstitch

    Independent Book Review
    April 2026

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  • Kim Hyesoon,
    Lady No

    Asymptote
    April 2026

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  • Claudia Petrucci,
    The Perfect Circle

    Asymptote
    April 2026

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  • Mohamed Mansi Qandil,
    The Country Doctor’s Tale

    Asymptote
    April 2026

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  • Therese Bohman,
    Mount Verity

    Necessary Fiction
    April 2026

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  • Jim Naremore,
    American Still Life

    Heavy Feather Review
    April 2026

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  • Jeanette Winterson,
    One Aladdin Two Lamps

    Harvard Review Online
    March 2026

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  • 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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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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Select Reviews Featured by Publishers

Featured Princeton University Press Review of Helen of Troy in Hollywood by Ruby Blondell
Featured Review on Penguin Random House website for Picasso's Lovers by Jeanne Mackin
Featured Review of Ferocious Ambition by Robert Dance on UP Mississippi Website

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, Asymptote, Harvard Review Online, Heavy Feather Review, Independent Book Review, Necessary Fiction, and the Southern Review of Books.