"Burning Down the House"
"Handmaid's Tale," Season Three, Episodes One-Three (Spoilers) At the end of “Useful,” the third episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Season...
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My Best Books Read in 2018 List
Fortunately, Goodreads keeps track of my reading over the course of a year. I’ve clocked in 43 books. Of those, my top three novels and...
“Burst!” Review of Dietland, by Sarai Walker
Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel Dietlandis a rageful, thoughtful, and funny kick-in-the-nuts of the patriarchy, written with much artistry and...
The Madwomen in Gilead: on Being a Wife in Hulu's Dystopia
The Handmaid’s Tale’s Gilead is a dark world that professes to exalt, honor, and protect women as wives and bearers of children. The...
Her Mother's Daughter: June in The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 Finale
Here be spoilers for the Season Two finale Reading online reviews and scrolling through Twitter last night (the end of the day on which...
Mirrors: Handmaid's Tale, Season Two, Episode Ten
(This post contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 10) I sure am glad that I was wrong about this being the last episode of the season....
The Handmaids Tale and the Power of 'I'
“The Canadians think the women here are oppressed and voiceless. I need you to show them a strong Gilead wife,” Fred Waterford says to...
Stealing Babies: The Handmaid’s Tale, History, and Now
Morality is in the eye—or the conscience—of the beholder, right? In the fictional dystopic world of The Handmaid’s Tale, humans have...
Handmaids Tale, Use of Space, and the Flower Children
(This post contains some spoilers from episodes 1-5 of the second season of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”) --“Our Father, who art in...
In a Lonely Place: A 70-year Old Noir Novel for the #MeToo Moment
“He scraped through the damp sand to the center house, two stories, both pouring broad bands of light into the fog. There was warmth and...
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