Ms. Magazine

I recently posted about two resources for books about women: Virago Press, and the Women's Review of Books. Another valuable resource, one which I have subscribed to and read for many many years, is Ms. Magazine. Ms. provides a wealth of information and inspiration regarding women's issues: political, social, economic, health, art, and much more; it also occasionally publishes fiction and poetry. Here I want to highlight the numerous book reviews in every issue. Reviews cover fiction and nonfiction, on a wide variety of topics and by a wide and inclusive variety of writers. The current issue (Winter 2010), for example, reviews such titles as "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot; "Shadow Tag,"by the noted Native American novelist Louise Erdrich; "Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done," by the well-known media studies scholar Susan J. Douglas; "The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work and Gender in America," by Kathleen Gerson; and "Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone," by Nadine Cohodas.