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Fiction As Resistance: Catherine Lacey on Joy Sorman’s <em>Life Sciences</em>

Fiction As Resistance: Catherine Lacey on Joy Sorman’s Life Sciences

“Women are inheritors of a thousand demented and limiting ideas of what a woman can or should be.”

By Catherine Lacey | October 13, 2021

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey: Notes Toward a Class on Writing Love

Catherine Lacey: Notes Toward a Class on Writing Love

The Author of The Answers Offers a Failed Syllabus for a Potentially Doomed Project

By Catherine Lacey | June 14, 2017

Catherine Lacey on House Bill 1523

Catherine Lacey on House Bill 1523

“Religious Freedom has nothing to do with religion or freedom"

By Catherine Lacey | April 13, 2016

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