As the world digests the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden, we offer a recommendation for Lawrence Wright’s masterful book The Looming Tower, which tells the history of Bin Laden and the terrorist movement that led to 9/11.
Bin Laden Book
The End of Something
Maybe we can't have it all, says Rachel Shteir at the Chronicle of Higher Education, but can't women at least have another Feminine Mystique?
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The Secret History of Black Chefs
“Back in the 1800s, for instance, when white women began recording their family food traditions, they took credit for their slaves' handiwork. ‘You owned Sally, you owned her recipe,’ Toni Tipton-Martin reflected on an episode of the podcast Gravy.” At Mother Jones, read about the secret history of black chefs in America.
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Jay Gatsby, Iconic American
BBC's Tom Geoghegan asks whether or not The Great Gatsby is "the perfect tale for modern America."
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Silver Press Launches
Silver Press is a new feminist publisher based in London. Forthcoming titles include Leonora Carrington's The Debutante and Other Stories, which you can read about here, as well as the first U.K. edition of Audre Lorde's essays and poetry.
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