Media

For a selection of Emily’s journalism, please see the Writings page of this website.

Reviews of Out of the Shadows

• Book Marks, ‘The Best Reviewed Books of the Week’
• Wall Street Journal
• Times Literary Supplement
• New York Journal of Books
• New York Times
• BookPage (starred review)
• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus
• Library Journal
• Cornflower Books
• Mae Clair

Reviews of A Secret Sisterhood

• The Atlantic
• Financial Times
• New York Journal of Books
• The Telegraph (India)
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus
• Austen Prose
• Ann Kennedy Smith

Articles and interviews featuring Emily

• New Yorker, ‘Why Did So Many Victorians try to Speak With the Dead?’
• New York Times, ‘Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do you?’
• Boston Globe, ‘How the Séance Gave Rise to Real, Live Victorian Women’
• Literary Hub, ’22 New Books to Get You Through The Week’
• Ann Kennedy Smith, ‘The Spiritualist Lecturers’
• Linda’s Book Bag, ‘Staying in with Emily Midorikawa’
• Lucy Writers, ‘They Weren’t Straightforward Heroines’
• Looking Backward, ‘An Interview with Emily Midorikawa’
• Jill’s Book Cafe, ‘Five on Friday with Emily Midorikawa’
• Deborah Kalb, ‘Q&A with Emily Midorikawa’

Video

• British Library & Royal Society of Literature, ‘Dalloway Day 2021’
• Brookline Booksmith, ‘Emily Midorikawa discusses Out of the Shadows with Jennifer Alton’ (book launch event)
• Fall For the Book Festival, ‘Breaking the Victorian Glass Ceiling’

Audio

• BBC Radio 4, The Battersea Poltergeist, episode 5 (interview at 15 minutes, 30 seconds in)
• ABC Radio National, ‘Emily Midorikawa – The Rise of Modern Spiritualism Through the Voices of Six Women’
• Lost Ladies of Lit, episode 85, Mary Taylor – Miss Miles with Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
• Marginally, episode 99, ‘Emily Midorikawa on Victorian Spiritualists, Libraries, Nonfiction, and Writing and Parenthood’
• BYU Radio, Constant Wonder, ‘Visionary Victorian Mediums’