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Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
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Against Interpretation
On style
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The artist a exemplary sufferer
Simone Weil
Camus’ Notebooks
Michel Leiris’ Manhood
The anthropologist as hero
The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs
Sartre’s Saint Genet
Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
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Ionesco
Reflections on The Deputy
The death of tragedy
Going to theater, etc.
Marat/Sa
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The eruption of these issues into the realm of art via the uncritical valorization of care no doubt contributed to my “yuck,” insofar as it risks suggesting that art—a realm to which women have been allowed entrance basically one second ago in human history—should become yet another place where women must grapple with an already-feminized, maternal
... See moreMaggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
I was humbled by her honesty and pained by her sadness as she mourned her own body and rhythms we’d come to cherish