From Argumentum, Kemenes Arpad on Conceptual Integration in Sylvia Plath’s "Getting There". From the Oxonian Review of Books, the mind of the moralist: A review of Susan Sontag's At the Same Time. What lies behind the enduring appeal of Harper Lee’s one and only novel? A review of Andrea O’Reilly' s Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart. From The Progressive, an interview with Jane Smiley, author of Ten Days in the Hills. Mocking Bird magic: An interview with Paula Kamen, author of Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind (and more and more and more). A review of Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire by Judith Thurman. An essay on thoroughly modern Jane Austen. Underrated women of note: It was only in the 20th century that women writers and artists began to receive something approaching their due.
