The Indypendent
Eleanor Bader
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage
While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like.
What To Watch: ‘About a Teacher’ Explores the Struggles of a Public School Instructor & His Students
For decades, teaching has been considered the fallback of the inept. After all, the old chestnut, “Those who can,…
Hope Rises From Climate Disaster in ‘Other Than We’ at La MaMa
Albert Einstein is credited with saying that great opportunities lie in the midst of calamity. Award-winning playwright Karen Malpede…
A Parisian Present Intrudes on a Long Island Past in Mary Fleming’s ‘Art of Regret’
At the start of Mary Fleming’s insightful second novel, The Art of Regret, Paris resident Trevor McFarquhar is something…
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…
Annie Ernaux’s Autobiographical Novel Offers a Warning to Supporters of Women’s Rights
When French feminist Annie Ernaux was a 23-year-old student at Rouen University, she faced an unplanned and undesired pregnancy.…
‘Sketchtasy,’ A Novel of Coming of Age Amid AIDS
Lambda Literary Award winner Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has described herself as “a genderqueer faggot, and a queen, on the…
Powers Confronts Power and History in New Book
Essayist, journalist, memoirist, poet and teacher Nicholas Powers collects more than 50 articles – some of them previously published…
Coming Up For Air: A Review of Arm the Spirit
Arm the Spirit: A Woman’s Journey Underground and Back By Diana Block AK Press, 2009 Diana Block, a former…