February 2023 – Robin's Room

Week beginning March 2023

Tracey Enerson Wood The President’s Wife Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. The President’s Wife is an apt title, encompassing as it does the part of Edith Galt’s life where she becomes instead, Edith Wilson, First lady. Galt is her married name – that of herContinue reading “Week beginning March 2023”

Week beginning

Kevin Landis One Public New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis Bloomsbury Academic, Methuen Drama 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge the land on which The Public and its theaters stand is the original homeland of the Lenape people. Kevin Landis’ historyContinue reading “Week beginning”

Week beginning 8 February 2023

Michele Moody-Adams Making Space for Justice Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope Columbia University Press, 2022. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This book is so enlightening, beginning with its title, through its chapter headings to the clear way in which Michele Moody-Adams explains the beginnings of herContinue reading “Week beginning 8 February 2023”

Week beginning 1 February 2023

The book I review this week is, in my opinion, somewhat of a throwback to a different age. Of course, the attitudes of the time were of a different age, but their perpetuation in the 2020s is an interesting phenomenon. To be fair, the title is modern – no ‘air hostesses’ here! Despite this proviso,Continue reading “Week beginning 1 February 2023”