April 2025: Women in Japan, Part One
Butter (2017) by Asako Yuzuki
A Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. Translated into English.
February 2025: Classics Month
Lysistrata (411 B.C.) by Aristophanes
An Ancient Greek comedy about a group of women who pledge to deny their husbands sex until they end the wars between the Greek city-states.