The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

"Doherty's overall galvanizing look at a little-explored conjunction of critical feminist voices should incite provocative historical context to current-day discussions around the need for more support of women's intellectual work."

"Doherty tries to address all of these, in part, one suspects, because the subjects of her title — the five 'Equivalents' — seem, from a contemporary intersectional perspective, potentially problematic: They were white, and, with the exception of Olsen, educated and largely well-off ..."

"So, too, Doherty's narrative — merging history, group biography, and literary criticism — becomes more diffuse, ranging quickly over the turbulent terrain of the late 1960s and beyond."

"Was all that struggle and angst and creative turmoil for nothing?"

"Doherty shies away from explicitly making such claims ..."

"Doherty, despite suggesting that bridging the two spheres is doable with some financial assistance and mutual goodwill, sidesteps the possibility of happy compromise right in her introduction, even before she starts laying out her argument."

"Her book is a love story about art and female friendship ..."

"an elegant, novelistic history ..."

"Doherty's first book, is written with panache."