StephanieVandrickReads

Today's guest post is written by my friend Sally Mansfield Abbot, the author of "Miami in Virgo," a feminist coming-of-age no...

Why and how are women pressured to have children? Sarah Benesch's brilliant book, "Pronatalism: Discourses and Counter Discourses,...

Some months ago, I tried to read Liz Moore's bestselling mystery novel, "The God of the Woods" (2024). From the descriptions a...

I apologize for the long gap in posting. I just finished reading a fascinating if sometimes painful to read memoir, "Care and Feeding...

"The Eights" (Putnam, 2025), Joanna Miller's first novel, is the story of four young women who are members of Oxford Universit...

After the death of my husband over three years ago, I accumulated a stack of books about loss and grief. Some I read or at least skimmed, ot...

I admire Stanley Tucci as an actor; most recently he was terrific in the film "Conclave," which now has extra resonance since the ...