Vox
Vox, Christina Dalcher’s novel makes use of Atwood’s template for modern feminist dystopian novels, placing it squarely in the United States. Not quite dystopian, eh? Margaret Atwood, writing The Handmaid’s Tale, created a template for modern feminist dystopian fiction. Current political optics have spawned a host of subsequent novels, including Christina Dalcher’s Vox, which imagines […]
Vinegar Girl – A re-taming of Kate
VINEGAR GIRL The Hogarth Shakespeare project, by commissioning a number of premier authors to write contemporary novels loosely based on William Shakespeare’s plays, brings those familiar narratives and themes into the twenty-first-century. One of the funniest is Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl, a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. Kate Battista, Tyler’s heroine, seems to […]