This month’s Center for Women Veterans author is Marine Corps Veteran CJ Scarlet, who served as a photojournalist from 1981 to 1986. She has written five books, including “Raising Badass Kids: The Parents’ Guide to Predator-Proofing Tweens & Teens” (RBK), which will be published in this month. Scarlet is a danger expert, award-winning author, ghostwriter,…

From Brazil to Egypt: Working-Class Women Find their Voice in Clarice Lispector’s Novels “If I have to be an object, let me be an object that screams,” Clarice Lispector, a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist, once wrote in her novel The Stream of Life (1973). In the visceral depths of human emotion, where grief and rage often…

Fuel is “needed to power hospital generators, ambulances, and water pumps,” wrote Sari Bashi for the NYR Online on October 30. “Israel…cannot block a life-saving supply, which is what fuel is to Gaza right now.” She implored the US government to “insist that Israel immediately allow monitored fuel and other supplies into Gaza via Egypt and its own…

Husbands and fathers are never humiliated in these copies of The Canterbury Tales and treachery never triumphs. No one ever has sex in a tree or accidentally kisses someone else’s hairy bottom – and anyone who expects to read about adultery and farting at friars will be offered moral tales celebrating martyrdom and marital obedience…

A glamorous family memoir; a fictional dinner party. Universal Images Group, via Getty Images Dear readers, Even if you’re partial to the holiday season, and I am, this particular weekend can take on a prelapsarian feel. For many of us, these are the last days before we’re roped into a monthlong chorus line of celebration,…

One in seven schools, meanwhile, don’t have a library and, possibly even more depressingly, seven in 10 primary school libraries don’t have designated staff. READ MORE: Shakespeare on Radio 4: The terrible truth about England’s bard Worst of all, children eligible for free school meals are the least likely to have access to a school library.…

MANILA, Philippines – Bookworms are both the easiest and the hardest people to think of gift ideas for. On the one hand, you always know that you can never go wrong with a crisp new book no matter the occasion. On the other hand, it seems as if they’ve already read every single book in…

TODAY: In 1939, Margaret Atwood is born. (Photo by Stephen McCarthy.) Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare’s first folio: Six scholars weigh in on the most important 844,421 words in literature. | Lit Hub History Kali Fajardo-Anstine invites you into the Southwest lands of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop. | Lit Hub Criticism “We all lie to ourselves.…

When thinking about what to read and then what to share here, I sometimes get trapped into believing it’s my job to seek out something new and unknown before returning to this space to share news of my explorations. But sometimes I need a reminder of the pleasures of the kind of books that may…