Revisiting – Reads A Lot

Revisiting “The Witches of Eastwick” 330 Years After Salem – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 8, 2022 by Sara Batkie

[ad_1] Around the time that Donald Trump was elected president in late 2016, a phrase began circulating periodically on my social media feeds: “We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.” This pithy rejoinder to patriarchal overreach was taken from a 2015 Tish Thawer novel but has since taken on a life of … Read more

Revisiting Natalia Ginzburg’s Evocative Narratives in “Voices in the Evening” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMay 18, 2021 by Mandana Chaffa

[ad_1] I first read Natalia Ginzburg’s memoir Lessico Famigliare—Family Lexicon—for a college Italian class. Though that book is in a language I no longer understand as fluidly as I wish I could, it has accompanied me across all my moves since. This re-issue of Voices in the Evening, also translated by D.M. Low and recently … Read more