Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
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Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
Margaret, the Males aren’t Gazing: The Man in my Head Keeps Torturing Me
Marijne Ottenheymwritersblockmagazine.com
I want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like we
... See moreI am not sure that beyond the work of radical poets, I’ve ever seen much mention in literature that a car requires gas, that the gas requires the oil industry, the oil industry requires imperialist war, etc. Instead, people in books move via invisible fuel in machines that are visible only as reflections of character, like a Ford Fiesta is not a ma
... See moreSam Jaffe Goldstein • Find Something to Hide as Soon as Possible; An Interview With Anne Boyer
I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.