Reviewed in Curve magazine, May 2011

". . . The L Life is a lovely book, with interesting essays bursting with quotes by the featured women. With so few opportunities to give voice to members of the lesbian community in such a significant format, the book will have lasting import. Add the exquisite images by photographer May, and it's more than a winning package that should be on your radar for upcoming gift giving opportunities such as Gay Pride and the holidays."

Reviewed in Ms. mag, Spring 2011

". . . Not since 1962, when [Rachel] Carson courageously challenged the chemical industry in Silent Spring, has a scientist woven so much revelation and research together with such gorgeous and persuasive prose. In Raising Elijah, Steingraber makes a case for 'outspoken, full-throated heroism in the face of the great moral crisis of our day.' . . . Steingraber's narrative is personal and political, funny and smart. She shows us the feminism and motherhood are not at odds; combined, they make for heroes."

Reviewed in Ms. mag, Spring 2011

"Lorene Cary doesn't shy away from telling complicated stories about race in the United States. . . . she distill[s] taboo topics into moving and accessible works of literature. She does it again with her latest novel. In If Sons, Then Heirs, Cary examines race and racism through the prism of land ownership in the South. We learn how three generations of an African American family are affected by property purchased by the family patriarch, the aptly named King Needham, and how holding on to that land through some of the most violent and racially charged periods of American history brings them a fair share of power, privilege and pain. . . . The novel is epic in scope . . . with a heavy nod toward the injustice of property laws that could ignore a woman's stewardship of the land, her decades-long struggle to pay taxes. 'Nobody helped her cut the wheat or grind the flour or bake the bread,' Rayne says of Selma, who carried the burden of the family's inheritance alone, or nearly so, for more than half a century."