All Despotisms Must End: On Lydia Moland’s “Lydia Maria Child”
J. C. Hallman reviews Lydia Moland’s biography of a 19th-century abolitionist, “Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life.”
J. C. Hallman is the author of a number of books, and the editor of The Story About the Story Series from Tin House Books. His most recent book, Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health, is forthcoming in 2023.
J. C. Hallman reviews Lydia Moland’s biography of a 19th-century abolitionist, “Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life.”
Steve Almond’s ambivalent love letter to John Williams’s novel “Stoner.”
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