BOOK REVIEWS | 2005 - 2006

Book Reviews
See all the reviews published online from Ms. Magazine.

Summer 2006
Spring 2006
Winter 2006
Fall 2006
Summer 2005

Reviewed in the Summer 2006 issue:

Alentejo Blue By Monica Ali
Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom By Unita Blackwell with JoAnne Prichard Morris
The Potbellied Virgin By Alicia Yánez Cossío
homegrown: engaged cultural criticism By bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains
The Dead Hour By Denise Mina

	Alentejo Blue By Monica Ali Review by Gaiutra Bahadur
	Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom By Unita Blackwell with JoAnne Prichard Morris Review by William Jelani Cobb
	The Potbellied Virgin By Alicia Yánez Cossío Review by Helena María Viramontes
	homegrown: engaged cultural criticism By bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains Review by Erin Aubry Kaplan
	The Dead Hour By Denise Mina Review by Margy Rochlin

Reviewed in the Spring 2006 issue:

Elements of Style By Wendy Wasserstein
Prospero's Daughter By Elizabeth Nunez
Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America By Judith A. Houck
Strange Piece of Paradise By Terri Jentz
How the Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex By Cristina Page

	Elements of Style By Wendy Wasserstein Reviewed by Barbara Isenberg

Reviewed in the Winter 2006 issue:

With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose By Kate Michelman
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism By Patricia Hill Collins
The Ellis Island Snow Globe By Erica Rand
Harvest for Hope By Jane Goodall
The Last of Her Kind By Sigrid Nunez

	With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose By Kate Michelman Reviewed by Celia Morris

Reviewed in the Fall 2005 issue:

Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam By Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream By Barbara Ehrenreich
The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion
The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton By Vivian Gornick
Saving Fish from Drowning By Amy Tan

	Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam By Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund Reviewed by Courtney Brkic

Reviewed in the Summer 2005 issue:

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage By Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship By Johnette Howard
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad By Alia Mamdouh
Zorro By Isabel Allende
Assassination Vacation By Sarah Vowell
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey By Linda Greenhouse

	Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage By Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas Reviewed by Celeste Fremon

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