Lean – Reads A Lot

The Politics of Worldbuilding in “The Thick and the Lean” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 25, 2023 by Malavika Praseed

[ad_1] Chana Porter, author of the acclaimed speculative novel The Seep, has returned in full force to her imaginative worldbuilding and incisive cultural commentary that made that book so successful. In The Thick and the Lean, she explores a religious society where delicious food is taboo, and the act of eating is as inelegant and … Read more

Beyond “Lean In” Feminism in “Red Valkyries” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJuly 14, 2022 by Ben Clarke

[ad_1] In the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the use of the word “feminist,” which now appears on t-shirts, in the titles of best-selling nonfiction, and in interviews with politicians, executives, and celebrities in a way that would have been all but unthinkable in the late twentieth century, with its vapid … Read more