Rebecca Steinitz is a literacy consultant in Boston-area urban high schools. She writes regularly about books and sundry topics for The Boston Globe, The Women’s Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Millions, and other publications. She is the author of Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary, a relic of her previous life as a professor of 19th-century British literature.
Rebecca Steinitz
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Writing on Public Books
Today’s Stories of Yesterday: Recent Historical Fiction
Contemporary historical fiction occupies virtually every point on the history–fiction spectrum: fictional stories of real-life people; narratives of real-life events experienced by fictional characters; fiction that rewrites novels of the past; and wholly fictional stories that inhabit an otherwise real past. Looking to the entire span of recorded and not-yet-recorded history (think Cloud Atlas), today […]
In Praise of MA (Middle-Aged) Fiction
Reading what we might call MA (Middle-Aged) fiction, it’s easy to see how YA (Young Adult) fiction has become so popular among not-so-young adults. In the face of characters burdened with troublesome children, aging parents, failures of love and marriage, professional frustration (or even more frustrating professional success), depression, cancer, and obesity, who wouldn’t want […]
