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Michelle Anne Schingler

Michelle Anne Schingler, a former librarian and Hebrew school teacher, is the managing editor at Foreword Reviews. Her days are books, books, books; she knows how lucky that makes her.  Twitter: @mschingler

The Pleasure of a Dirty Book

In praise of beat up, stained, bent, splotchy-paged books.

A Reader’s Gripe With Carrie Bradshaw

Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw is a writer, but she sure drives this reader nuts.

Reading The Handmaid’s Tale in the Year of Trump

The frightening prescience of Atwood's HANDMAID'S TALE in the rhetoric of Donald Trump.

21 Bible Stories for Trump

Twitter gave us #BibleStoriesForTrump, so we gave back more.

A Bookish Post-Debate Strategy from Aristophanes

Hey "nasty women," let's do John Waters one better and go full Lysistrata.

100 Must Read Books About Women & Religion

Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about women finding their own way in religious traditions.

The Happily Bookish Challenge

We're skipping the "Happily Married Challenge" meme in exchange for the "Happily Bookish Challenge."

6 Ways To Use Your TBR Stack (When Reading It Down Is Not An Option)

Most of them involve weeping.

The Danger of a Diary

On the danger of reading the diary of your literary hero.

What It Means to Me to Have a Bookish Nominee

I learned something from Chelsea Clinton’s speech tonight: Hillary Clinton, as the first nominee who represents me fully, does so ...