It’s been a Pride and Prejudice retelling kind of month. First it was Jo Baker’s Longbourn, and now it’s a modernization. Well, actually it’s an adaptation of a modernization. Let me ‘splain. Meet Lizzie Bennet, Californian grad student embarking on a vlog for her final project. I stumbled upon this amazing web series soon after…
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Review: Longbourn
Sarah spends her days washing, cooking, and cleaning for the Bennet family. The work is back-breaking and never ending, and Sarah knows she will be doing it until she dies. The arrival of an eligible bachelor at Netherfield has the gentry in a buzz, but it’s the arrival of a new footman that has Longbourn’s…
Review: Maid to Match
It’s 1898, and Tillie Reese is about to attain her lifelong dream. Being a housemaid at Biltmore — the palatial home of George and Edith Vanderbilt — is more than she could have ever imagined, and now she has the chance to become lady’s maid to Mrs. Vanderbilt herself. There’s just one problem: Mack Danvers,…
Review: Sex and Punishment
**This review contains adult language and discusses sex and sexuality in frank terms.** As long as sex has been around, humans have created rules regulating it. Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire is an in-depth look at the history of that regulation, from ancient Mesopotamia to Oscar Wilde’s 1895 imprisonment…
Review: The Right to Privacy
Despite the word “privacy” not appearing anywhere in the US Constitution, this country’s citizens believe fervently in its importance. But as Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy’s 1997 book shows, the concept of being “left alone” is under siege. The Right to Privacy is the result of Alderman and and Kennedy’s survey of dozens of court…