Reviews

My one-year-old son finally slept through the night. Instead of feeling relief, I was tense with worry. “Do you think he’s okay?” I asked my husband. “Should I go in…

In her new book Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, feminist scholar Fiona Giles takes on the image problem of breasts in this double-D obsessed society and “outs” breasts…

Who is Jacqueline Kramer? She’s certainly not a traditional Buddhist guru with retreat centers and students traveling halfway around the world to hear her teachings. Nor does she have an…

As a mother of two toddlers I don’t have gobs of downtime and reading often falls far down on my list of priorities, somewhere between “floss” and “learn to program…

When I was invited to review Andrea Buchanan’s Mother Shock, I accepted with some trepidation. I really wanted to like this book, but I was afraid I might be in…

Motherhood gets a much needed makeover in this ultra-cool anthology put together by Hip Mama editors Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender. This book is chock full of real life-in-the-trenches stories…

At first glance, Francesca Lia Block, an author best known for her portrayals of Los Angeles hipster life in a series of young adult novels and, more recently, for erotica,…

“My family flipped out,” Ariel Gore said at a recent book signing when asked how her kin responded to the recent publication of her memoir. “I need ten years of…

It’s a truism of new parenthood that it changes everything — even our notion of what “everything” is. Too often we lack the words to describe the experience. As new…