Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.
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‘Scientology: The Story’
May 23, 2013
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Scientology: The Story
April 25, 2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by Lawrence Wright
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
by Jenna Miscavige Hill, with Lisa Pulitzer
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At the Slumber Party
November 8, 2012
How Should a Person Be?
by Sheila Heti
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Mothers Beware!
June 21, 2012
The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
by Elisabeth Badinter
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
by Pamela Druckerman
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
by Anne Enright
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The Storyteller and the Kid
March 8, 2012
Lost Memory of Skin
by Russell Banks
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How Good Are China’s Schools?
October 13, 2011
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Finish That Homework!
August 18, 2011
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua
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West Coast Delusions
February 24, 2011
When the Killing’s Done
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Paying the Right Kind of Attention
October 14, 2010
The Same River Twice
by Ted Mooney
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The Marrying Kind
August 19, 2010
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
by Kate Braestrup
The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
by Andrew J. Cherlin
Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Love
by Helen Fisher
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
by Lori Gottlieb
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The Way Forward
November 5, 2009
The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
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The Patient Talks Back
October 23, 2008
The Two Kinds of Decay
by Sarah Manguso
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
The Thing About Life Is ThatOne Day You’ll Be Dead
by David Shields
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J.G. Ballard: The Glow of the Prophet
October 9, 2008
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography
by J.G. Ballard
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J.G. Ballard
Crash
by J.G. Ballard
Concrete Island
by J.G. Ballard
Empire of the Sun
by J.G. Ballard
The Day of Creation
by J.G. Ballard
Running Wild
by J.G. Ballard
The Kindness of Women
by J.G. Ballard
Cocaine Nights
by J.G. Ballard
Super-Cannes
by J.G. Ballard
Kingdom Come
by J.G. Ballard
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Will to Live
February 14, 2008
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir
by David Rieff
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The Malibu Decameron
April 26, 2007
Ten Days in the Hills
by Jane Smiley
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The Triumph of Turgenev
March 29, 2007
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
by Robert Dessaix
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True Confessions
November 16, 2006
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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In Love with Jane
June 23, 2005
A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
by Richard Jenkyns
Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinshipin English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818
by Ruth Perry
Jane Austen
by Darryl Jones
Searching for Jane Austen
by Emily Auerbach
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
by Peter Knox-Shaw
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
by William Deresiewicz
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Stiff Upper Lip
October 21, 2004
The Lemon Table
by Julian Barnes
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False Promises
December 4, 2003
Where I Was From
by Joan Didion
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The War Between Men and Women (Cont’d)
October 23, 2003
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Men and Women
by Andrew Hacker
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The Art of Living
September 26, 2002
A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay
by William Rieder
Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton
by Marion Mainwaring, with a foreword by Richard Howard
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The Unspoken Word
March 8, 2001
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The Best Men?
October 19, 2000
The Golden Age
by Gore Vidal
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Going West
April 27, 2000
In America
by Susan Sontag
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Missionary
May 20, 1999
Single & Single
by John le Carré
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Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
April 22, 1999
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My Blue Heaven
July 16, 1998
Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers
by Julia Grant
Dr. Spock: An American Life
by Thomas Maier
Baby and Child Care
Seventh edition, by Benjamin Spock, by Steven Parker
Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families
by Bill McKibben
Family Man
by Calvin Trillin
Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality
by William Wright
The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, by Cornel West
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by Meredith F. Small
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American Pie
December 18, 1997
Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch
A Welcoming Life: The M.F.K. Fisher Scrapbook compiled and annotated by Dominique Gioia
Marcella Cucina by Marcella Hazan
The All-New Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, by Marion Rombauer Becker, by Ethan Becker
The American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century by Jean Anderson
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What Do Women Want?
November 28, 1996
‘Bad Girls’/’Good Girls’: Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties edited by Nan Bauer Maglin, edited by Donna Perry
‘Feminism is Not the Story of My Life’: How Today’s Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
She Works, He Works: How Two-Income Families are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off by Rosalind C. Barnett, by Caryl Rivers
The Sibling Society by Robert Bly
The Seasons of a Woman’s Life by Daniel J. Levinson
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood by Sharon Hays
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The Constant Wife
September 21, 1995
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox
A Genius for Living: The Life of Frieda Lawrence by Janet Byrne
Frieda Lawrence, Including ‘Not I, But the Wind’ and other autobiographical writings by Rosie Jackson
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Rags!
February 16, 1995
Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by Philippe Perrot, translated by Richard Bienvenu
Sex and Suits
by Anne Hollander
The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad by Sheila Paine
Fashion, Culture, and Identity by Fred Davis
The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy
by Gilles Lipovetsky, translated by Catherine Porter, foreword by Richard Sennett
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Supergirls
December 2, 1993
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
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How Mexican Is It?
September 23, 1993
Eclipse Fever by Walter Abish
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Star
April 8, 1993
Screening History by Gore Vidal
Live From Golgotha by Gore Vidal
Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of CasablancaBogart, Bergman, and World War II
by Aljean Harmetz
M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America by H. Bruce Franklin
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Do Women Care More?
April 23, 1992
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Something for the Boys
January 16, 1992
Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
by David D. Gilmore
Fire in the Belly: On Being A Man by Sam Keen
Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness by Robert A. Johnson
King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore, by Douglas Gillette
Prisoners of Men’s Dreams: Striking Out for a New Feminine Future by Suzanne Gordon
Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
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Dreams of E.A. Poe
July 18, 1991
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The Best of Times
March 28, 1991
Possession by A.S. Byatt
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‘Grand Hotel’
December 20, 1990
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Tell, Don’t Show
November 22, 1990
Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr
Wildlife by Richard Ford
The Screenplay: A Blend of Film Form and Content
by Margaret Mehring
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Back to Mormonism
June 28, 1990
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The Lost World of the Mormons
March 15, 1990
The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman
‘Doc’: The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen
The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death by Steven Naifeh, by Gregory White Smith
Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders by Linda Sillitoe, by Allen Roberts
Windows on the Sea and Other Stories by Linda Sillitoe
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The Sexual Fast Track
March 1, 1990
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In Bed with Social Science
October 12, 1989
Sex and Morality in the U.S.: An Empirical Enquiry under the Auspices of the Kinsey Institute by Albert D. Klassen, by Colin J. Williams, by Eugene E. Levitt, edited by Hubert J. O'Gorman
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‘AIDS Without End’
December 8, 1988
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AIDS Without End
August 18, 1988
Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic by James D. Watkins chairman. submitted to the President of the United States, June 24, 1988
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
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Living Legends
July 16, 1987
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
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Playtime
January 29, 1987
Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures by Frances FitzGerald
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A House Is Not a Home
December 4, 1986
Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
House by Tracy Kidder
The Englishman’s Room
edited by Avilde Lees-Milne, photographs by Derry Moore
Designs for Interiors: Catalog to the Exhibition by Stephen Calloway
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Southern Comfort
November 7, 1985
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
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Conspirators
March 14, 1985
White Noise by Don DeLillo
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‘Literary Domestics’
October 11, 1984
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Warlock
June 14, 1984
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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Darn that Darning
April 12, 1984
Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America 18301870
by Karen Halttunen
The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America by Harvey Green
Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Kelley
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
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Worst Wishes
February 16, 1984
Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge by Susan Jacoby
Man Slaughter by Steven Englund
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Ruskin Our Contemporary?
March 31, 1983
The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin by John Dixon Hunt
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin edited by George Allan Cate
The Ruskin Polygon edited by John Dixon Hunt, by Faith M. Holland
New Approaches to Ruskin: Thirteen Essays edited by Robert Hewison
Studies in Ruskin: Essays in Honor of Van Akin Burd edited by Robert E. Rhodes, by Del Ivan Janik
Letters from the Continent 1858 edited by John Hayman
Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
by Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Ruskin and Venice by Jeanne Clegg
Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861 by Eve Blau
The Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin by Raymond E. Fitch
Ruskin’s Maze: Mastery and Madness in His Art
by Jay Fellows
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Rite of Passage
August 12, 1982
Life After Marriage: Love in an Age of Divorce by A. Alvarez
Marriage, Love, Sex and Divorce by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
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Goys Into Wasps
May 27, 1982
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Point of Departure
March 4, 1982
The Dean’s December by Saul Bellow
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The Flight of the Bumble Bee
February 18, 1982
The New American Cuisine by the editors of Metropolitan Home
The Elegance with Ease Cookbook by Fern Lebo
Discover Brunch: A New Way of Entertaining by Ruth Macpherson
Cooking with Carrier by Robert Carrier
Robert Carrier’s Entertaining
Too Busy to Cook? Bon Appetit magazine
The New York Times More 60-Minute Gourmet by Pierre Franey
Fifteen-Minute Meals by Emalee Chapman
The New James Beard by James Beard
The Park Avenue Cookbook by Sara Stamm
The Helen Corbitt Collection edited by Elizabeth Ann Johnson
Pamela Harlech’s Practical Guide to Cooking, Entertaining & Household Management
The Only Texas Cookbook
by Linda West Eckhardt
The World’s Best Food for Health and Long Life by Michael Bateman, by Caroline Conran, by Oliver Gillie
Kitchen in the Hills: The Hovel Cookbook by Elizabeth West
The Microwave Chinese Cookbook by Lillian Chen, by Edith Nobile
Cookbook from a Melting Pot An E. Paulucci Book, by Elizabeth Paulucci
The Nouvelle Cuisine Cookbook by Armand Aulicino
The French Cuisine of Your Choice by Isabelle Marique, by Albert Jorant
Kitchen Science: A Compendium of Essential Information for Every Cook by Howard Hillman
Chinese Technique by Ken Hom, by Harvey Steiman
Cooking Techniques: How to Do Anything a Recipe Tells You to Do by Beverly Cox, by Joan Whitman
The Cook’s Handbook by Prue Leith
Judith Olney’s Entertainments: A Cookbook to Delight the Mind and Senses
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The Heart of the Heart of the Country
November 19, 1981
Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
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After Jonestown
October 8, 1981
Our Father Who Art in Hell
by James Reston Jr.
The Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden
Awake in a NightmareJonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account by Ethan Feinsod
In My Father’s House: The Story of the Layton Family and the Reverend Jim Jones by Min S. Yee, by Thomas N. Layton
Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy by Shiva Naipaul
The Strongest Poison by Mark Lane
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Colette in Pieces
April 2, 1981
Letters from Colette selected and translated by Robert Phelps
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Waiting for Righty
November 6, 1980
Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow
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Not Right for Our Rose
May 15, 1980
John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867 introduced and edited by Van Akin Burd
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Correction and Clarification
February 21, 1980
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The Talk of Nohant
February 7, 1980
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Death for Sale
December 6, 1979
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
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She Had It All
October 11, 1979
My Life by George Sand, translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter
George Sand in Her Own Words translated and edited by Joseph Barry, introduction by Ellen Moers
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters translated by A.L. McKenzie
The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer by Renee Winegarten
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Cult Freedom
September 27, 1979
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Ruskin’s Originality
June 14, 1979
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Beyond the Evidence
June 14, 1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Heart of Darkness
April 19, 1979
The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana by Marshall Kilduff, by Ron Javers
Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account by Charles A. Krause, with Lawrence M. Stern, by Richard Harwood, by Frank Johnston
Hold Hands and Die!: The Incredibly True Story of the People’s Temple and the Reverend Jim Jones by John Maguire, by Mary Lee Dunn
Six Years With God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple by Jeannie Mills
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The Return of Ruskin
January 25, 1979
Ruskin’s Venice edited by Arnold Whittick
Looking at Architecture with Ruskin by John Unrau
John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye by Robert Hewison
Ruskin
by Quentin Bell
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Home Remedies
October 26, 1978
Families by Jane Howard
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Release Ngugi
June 15, 1978
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Unkind Cut
June 15, 1978
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Ah, Wilderness!
March 23, 1978
The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
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The Oppressor in the Next Room
November 10, 1977
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
White Rat by Gayl Jones
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
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Hard Hit Women
April 28, 1977
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Lover by Bertha Harris
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The Mysterious West
April 28, 1977
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Ghosts
February 3, 1977
The Names by N. Scott Momaday
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Encounter with an Angry God by Carobeth Laird
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Justice to Charlotte Brontë
November 25, 1976
Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived by Helene Moglen
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An Expert’s Obligation
October 14, 1976
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Friendly Fire
October 14, 1976
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True Patriots
August 5, 1976
Friendly Fire by C.D.B. Bryan
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The People v. Patty Hearst
April 29, 1976
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Degrees of Rape
April 1, 1976
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The War Between Men and Women
December 11, 1975
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
Rape: The Bait and the Trap by Jean MacKellar, with the collaboration of Dr. Menachem Amir
Rape and Its Victims: A Report for Citizens, Health Facilities and Criminal Justice Agencies Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, DC. Criminal Justice Reference Service, PO Box 24036, Southwest Post Office, Washington, DC 20024 by the Center for Women Policy Studies et al., funded by the Law