Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age: by Julie Golia, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 219 pp.

The book examines advice columns in more than thirty newspapers between 1895 and 1940 - local columns, national columns, columns from Black newspapers - using seven of them as case studies. Advice columns have a long tradition in newspapers. [Extracted from the article]