‘The Ladder’ Makes History Again
The Ladder, the first lesbian
‘The Retribution’ and ‘The Vanishing Point’ by Val McDermid
Some of our finest writers are authors of crime fiction. Russell Banks, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, P.D. James and of course, Val McDermid. These writers don’t just tell a detective tale, they peel back the layers of human experience to reveal all the gory bits we try never to see up close.
Gerda Lerner: Founder of Women’s Studies Movement Dies at 92
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, “When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing.”
‘Trick of the Dark’ by Val McDermid
Trick of the Dark (Bywater Books) is something old and something new from McDermid. A stand-alone novel (not one of her series detectives appears) and thoroughly, engagingly, compellingly lesbian as well as being just as bloodily intense as her previous thrillers.
Victoria Brownworth: The Activist Writer
“I turn everything into activism.”
