Essays from the editor-in-chief of Ms., including: an interesting look back at the feminist wave she helped start 20 years ago; some fine partisan journalism; and some perfectly dreadful flights of fancy. The earliest essays here are classics of late-60's, left- inflected early feminist rhetoric to which Morgan has added context and reflection through self-critical introductory notes. A cofounder of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, Morgan is most impressive as a journalist and activist covering international women's issues, taking readers on personal, detailed visits to unfamiliar realms. She meets with Palestinian women (after the start of the Intifada and two years after an earlier visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip that accounted for the strongest section of The Demon Lover, 1989), finding them still struggling to maintain constructive values in counterpoint to war-culture- -although young Palestinian girls who two years earlier dreamed of being teachers and doctors now say they hope to become ``the mother of a martyr.'' Morgan's 1988 visit to the Philippines introduces local women dealing with male domination, economic oppression, and sexual tourism. The issues raised—as well as the rural women who walk 12 miles to attend a meeting on women's rights—prove that feminism is not a purely middle-class concern. But when Morgan eschews journalism for creativity, her musings on metaphor and her muddled attempts to link feminism and modern physics (as in The Anatomy of Freedom, 1982) show clumsy self-indulgence. Too valuable to be ignored, but too often testing the reader's patience.
Pub Date: Nov. 2, 1992
ISBN: 0-393-03427-5
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Norton
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 1992
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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