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Biden: I Was Right to Seek Reelection
In his new memoir, the 46th president is pugnacious, unrepentant, and unreflective.
The Atlantic · EN
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7 Books About Mothers with Voracious Interior Lives
The political project constraining American women, the one that gave us Dobbs, rests on a picture of motherhood as a woman’s entirety. Instinctive, total, self-abnegating, and therefore requiring no compensation, no consent, and no interior life. A reader of feminist theory may hear Silvia Federici’s “Wages Against Housework”: Housework “transformed into a natural attribute of […] The post 7 Books About Mothers with Voracious Interior Lives appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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How a Vanity Fair Insider Managed Hollywood Egos
On my first day at Vanity Fair, I received a tap on my left shoulder from a woman with cropped blond hair, a voluminous mink, and enormous black sunglasses. She looked out of sorts. “Can you tell me where my
Literary Hub · EN
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Why Do We Sing?
Why do people sing? Why is it so necessary that we would go to any length to do it, even in the face of repression? Linda Ronstadt suggests people do it for the same reasons the birds do: “They sing
Literary Hub · EN
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How to Be an Ethical Russophile
In his new memoir, Emmanuel Carrère wonders if he can both oppose the war in Ukraine and love Russia.
The Atlantic · EN
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The One Source Bob Woodward Can’t Get to Talk
In a new memoir, the legendary reporter reveals his methods—but little of himself.
The Atlantic · EN