From America’s top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career“A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions…”–Bookpage STARRED review"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED review"Rosenberg’s fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of...

EDITOR'S PICK ON AMAZON.COM**'**As captivating and nuanced as the drawings themselves' - The New York Times**'**Against the odds, her prose keeps pace with her pastels' - Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World'Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down' - Publisher's WeeklyA penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of a top courtroom sketch artist.

EDITOR'S PICK ON AMAZON.COM**'**As captivating and nuanced as the drawings themselves' - The New York Times**'**Against the odds, her prose keeps pace with her pastels' - Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World'Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down' - Publisher's WeeklyA penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of a top courtroom sketch artist.

From America’s top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career“A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions…”–Bookpage STARRED review"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED review"Rosenberg’s fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of...

El 13 de noviembre de 2018, primer día del "juicio del siglo" ─como dieron en llamarlo─, estalló la primer bomba "Todo el gobierno de México, hasta el actual presidente y el anterior, reciben cientos de millones de dólares del narcotráfico", espetó uno de los abogados del acusado.A lo largo del juicio de Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán salieron a la luz los actos de corrupción de altos funcionarios.¿Deberían ser ellos juzgados de la misma manera que el narcotraficante?En ...

In Daphne and Her Discontents, Jane Rosenberg LaForge investigates the relationship between fathers and daughters. She returns with Medusa’s Daughter, in which she wrestles with the legend of Medusa to explore the life and legacy of her own mother. A simultaneous act of homage, and revision, Medusa’s Daughter asks whether an inheritance is fate or merely a template that can be rejected or embraced. The poems also explore how one anonymous woman, seemingly consigned to a life designed by pa...

A great war, a great love, and the mythology that unites them; The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War is a lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic.Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the tale's heart are an American schoolteacher—dynamic and imaginative—and an Irish musician, homeless and hated—who have survived bloodshed, poverty, and sickness to be thrown together in an English village. Together they quietly hide from the wo...

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a search for happiness.In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the ...

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, ...

In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements.A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a tru...

August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and celebrated—the struggle did not end there. Due to states’ laws and prohibitive policies, ...

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted in Hospital Sketches drawn from her own...