Hannah Joyner
Hannah Joyner is an independent scholar living in Washington, D.C. Her work includes Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson and From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. You can find her on BookTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/HannahsBooks.
This scholarly consideration of both ethnic identity and gender ideology shines new light on a midcentury American intellectual movement.
At a time when all eyes are on Gaza, a scholar considers different ways Jews consider God, religious observance, and the state of Israel.
Using newly available sources, Mary V. Dearborn explores the complicated life of a brilliant writer of Southern Gothic fiction.
A slim new biography of American novelist Willa Cather, just in time for her 150th birthday.
This extraordinary collection of stories considers the impact of injustice based on race and gender oppression, the shifting meanings of history, and the complex emotions of grief.
A sparkling new one-volume biography of Graham Greene considers not only Greene’s novels but his work on behalf of human rights violations around the world, his struggles with faith, and his subtle yearning for joy.
An author considers why the words of William Shakespeare continue to hold such relevance even in today’s difficult times—for us and for himself.
Instead of recounting the story of a Victorian sentimentalist or a benevolent social critic, A. N. Wilson points to the dark side of Charles Dickens.
A critic and journalist considers how a lifetime of experience has opened her eyes to new meanings in old books.
A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in her own life, and learns that her personal experiences give her a new lens to explore the meaning of Austen’s novels.
While looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
A Jewish immigrant and factory worker catapults to national prominence in the first decade of the twentieth century--partly because of her charismatic leadership in radical organizations such as the Socialist party, and partly because of her marriage to a scion of one of the wealthiest families in the United States.