I was reminded of her this spring, when I was looking for contributors to a series I’m editing on the end of World War II. I first heard of the celebrated Japanese author Yoko Ogawa from a profile last year by Motoko Rich, our Tokyo bureau chief. (Scribner, $27.) For 10 years Foster followed women who had sought abortions, to see the long-term effects of having one versus being denied. THE TURNAWAY STUDY: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having - or Being Denied - an Abortion, by Diana Greene Foster. (Basic, $30.) A historian argues that although feminism was largely out of the spotlight in the 1990s, activists kept the movement alive, achieving gains for marginalized women and paving the way for #MeToo.
THEY DIDN’T SEE US COMING: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties, by Lisa Levenstein. In his introduction to this reissue, André Aciman says the novel inspired “Call Me by Your Name.” (Penguin Classics, paper, $15.) Strachey’s sole novel, published under a pseudonym in 1949, tells the autobiographical story of an adolescent girl’s obsession with her female teacher. (Norton, $25.95.) Loh’s comic appraisal of life at middle age also offers an acerbic reckoning of how the burdens of parenting and housekeeping continue to fall most heavily on women. As they grow closer, their relationship is threatened by jealousy and rivalry, and the school year seems destined to end in tragedy.THE MADWOMAN AND THE ROOMBA: My Year of Domestic Mayhem, by Sandra Tsing Loh. But Mademoiselle Julie’s life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher, Mademoiselle Julie, who introduces her to art, literature, and fine cuisine. It tells the story of Olivia, a sixteen-year-old girl who is sent from England to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Olivia, first published in 1949 and loosely based on the author’s life, is a groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love. He will be in conversation with writer Stacy D’Erasmo ( Wonderland, The Art of Intimacy) to discuss the novel’s impact.
Donate $10 to Help Support Our ProgrammingĬritically acclaimed author André Aciman credits Dorothy Strachey’s Olivia, reissued by Penguin Classics this June with an introduction by Aciman himself, as inspiration for his Call Me By Your Name.
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