R. Danielle Egan, Author, Katherine Frank, Author, Merri Lisa Johnson, Read by . Thunder's Mouth $15.95 (234p) ISBN 978-1-56025-721-9
The editors of this anthology—all academics who have worked as exotic dancers— start out slowly and save their best for last. In other words, readers should skip the long-winded introduction and head straight for the entertaining account
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Katherine Frank, Author . Houghton Mifflin $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-395-73097-3
The most striking aspects of Frank's readable, well-wrought biography are Gandhi's sad childhood and her reluctance to enter politics. She attended upwards of seven schools in Switzerland, England and India and was often separated from her...
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Katherine Frank, Author Ballantine Books $19 (332p) ISBN 978-0-449-90661-3
A portrait of Bronte as a victim of anorexia nervosa. Illustrated. (Feb.)
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Katherine Frank, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-395-42508-4
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, ``a saga of . . . transcendent, death-defying love,'' is also ``a book profoundly concerned with food and hunger and starvation,'' observes Frank. Bronte's oft-celebrated mystical temperament, in Frank's persuasive...
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Katherine Frank, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27.5 (398p) ISBN 978-0-395-54688-8
Frank ( A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Bronte ) here combines research skills with sympathetic writing to portray an unusual Victorian woman. Gordon (1821-1869) and her husband Alexander Duff Gordon were progressive thinkers who moved in London's
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Katherine Frank. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60598-334-9
While authors such as Tim Severin have made the case for various models for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Frank’s well-researched if overly detailed account makes the case that his primary model was real-life voyager Robert Knox, who was detained...
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Katherine Frank. Rowman & Littlefield, $34 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4422-1868-0
Frank (G-Strings and Sympathy) views the history of and cultural fixation on group sex through the dual binoculars of outsider-curiosity and insider-experience. A sometime anthropologically-minded stripper, sex party attendee, and convention-goer,...
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