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$Cover Art: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder: Showing plaster as broken by the impact of a fist: but also referring to a fragmented, fractured self$

Spike in Domestic Violence (DV) Accompanies Pandemic Shelter-at-Home

By Lou Agosta on April 12, 2020

This is a republishing with light editing of a book review from May 19, 2019 on Rachel Louise Snyder’s important work on domestic violence (DV). Difficult situations are further breaking down and becoming intolerable under the stresses of the pandemic…. Read More ›

Cover Art: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder - a picture of cracked plaster - not only of an enraged fist but of a damaged, fragmented self (?)

Review: “No Visible Bruises” Refers to Strangulation

By Lou Agosta on May 27, 2019

The title of Rachel Louise Snyder’s eye-opening, powerful, page-turner of a book, No Visible Bruises, refers to strangulation [No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019: 309 pp, $28(US)]. Some… Read More ›