Ruby Lal’s ‘Vagabond Princess’ recovers one woman’s vast 16th-century scholarship. Why has it been ignored for so long? :: In the summer of 1997, professor and historian Ruby Lal sat tucked inside the British Library, turning the delicate pages of a book written by 16th-century princess Gulbadan Begum, the first and only female historian…
Inside the Mirror, Parul Kapur’s debut novel, inserts women into India’s postwar contemporary art scene, raising questions about the balance of power between men and women, colonized and colonizers. :: The seeds of Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror, were first planted during her childhood, in the stories she heard of her father’s India….
There’s a friction in L.S. McKee’s debut poetry collection, Creature Wing Heart Machine (Zone 3 Press), between the visceral and the mechanical, the somatic and the cerebral, the body and the algorithm. She weaves whole worlds inside these tensions, worlds where the “whirring machine” of the flesh “sings a silent, canary-throated song,” where a different…
Denene Millner’s One Blood is a heroine’s journey, one traveled across time, across generations of three women connected by birth, by blood and by love. It’s a story about the mothers who bring us into the world, the mothers who raise us and the women we become as a result of their choices. It is…
New York Times bestselling author Vanessa Riley digs deep for her stories. She considers herself a detective in that way, mining research databases, combing through historical tomes, scouring old newspapers to excavate the lives of the Black women history has left behind. She collects period fabrics, glistening taffetas that she can watch shimmer in the…
When Cameron Munson was small, his grandmother used to sing a nursery rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. The ghoulish little song about the American woman tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother…
The essays in Caroline Crew’s new collection Other Girls To Burn (University of Georgia Press, 2021) are built with the architectural tools of poetry — lyrical language and line breaks, mythology and metaphor. Crew presses against the confines of the form to craft pieces that refuse categorization. There are essays in Other Girls To Burn…
“As a family, we have always, when we travel, gone to indie bookstores,” says Sandra Huff. “Everywhere we go.” In fact, the dream for Huff’s recently opened Virginia-Highland bookshop was first seeded around dinner tables on those family vacations. She and her family would post up after a day of exploring and daydream over dinner…
It was early on a Monday morning. Atlanta Vintage Books had just opened for the day. Longtime employee Megan Leach hadn’t even had her coffee yet. “I was here with my coworker and a guy just walked in the door,” Leach says. “He had a list printed out and said, ‘I have a couple of…
Georgia-born poet Adrienne Su’s latest collection, Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press, 88 pages), is a passport. Its evocative, digestible poems take readers on a culinary trip from the Atlanta’s suburbs of Su’s childhood, to the explosive Buford Highway international food scene, all the way to her parent’s China and back again. There are villanelles…
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