Hannah Joyner

Jan 23, 2025 | openlettersreview.com | Hannah Joyner

Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall FullerOxford University Press, 2025It’s hard to overstate the impact of transcendentalism on American culture. At the heart of the nineteenth-century spiritual philosophy was a seeming contradiction. Founded by a group of intellectuals committed to a life of rigorous study, transcendentalism nevertheless embraced intuition rather than strict empiricism.

Jan 19, 2025 | openlettersreview.com | Hannah Joyner

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt Translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese GrillLiveright Publishing Corporation, 2025In today’s fraught political world, twentieth-century political philosopher Hannah Arendt is having a bit of a moment.

May 28, 2024 | openlettersreview.com | Hannah Joyner

Write like a Man by Ronnie A. GrinbergPrinceton University Press 2024 “The first thing you thought about was whether they were good-looking and if you could sleep with them,” said Jason Epstein, referring to the women who were part of a midcentury circle of writers known as the New York intellectuals.

May 5, 2024 | 3ammagazine.com | Hannah Joyner

by Hannah E. Joyner. Julianne looked at the pineapple plantation’s kiosk menu and considered the tater-tot nachos. Maybe the pineapple chilly dog. Nothing on the menu came without a shiny lump of pineapple. She decided to get the whip (a pineapple soft serve) and while walking around the plantation’s botanical ‘garden’ (courtyard) she ate the whip and stopped to take a closer look at a red bromeliad with green spots. The spots were almost neon.

Mar 27, 2024 | openlettersreview.com | Hannah Joyner

The Letters of Emily Dickinsonedited by Christanne Miller and Domhnall MitchellThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024In the popular imagination, Emily Dickinson was a reclusive spinster, locked away in her private upstairs bedroom—as were hundreds and hundreds of her poems, discovered only after her death. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Christanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, prove this vision to be untrue.