Books by Laurie Penny and Complete Book Reviews
Laurie Penny. Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-62040-689-2
Journalist and activist Penny (Meat Market) combines unsparing autobiography and searing political analysis in her latest book; the result is a powerful feminist polemic that critiques the structure of society. Though she adopts a radical...
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Laurie Penny. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (128p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8827-8
Time is the ultimate weapon in this uneven dystopian novella from political columnist Penny, in which have-nots are determined to take down the haves who benefit from access to “the fix,” an expensive life-extension drug. The story, set in Oxford,...
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Laurie Penny. Bloomsbury, $17 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-5266-0220-6
Journalist and screenwriter Penny (Bitch Doctrine) examines in this passionate if uneven polemic how “women and queer people are rewriting the terms of a social contract that was never supposed to include us.” Exposing the backlash to this “paradigm
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