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Emerald Fennell’s <em>Wuthering Heights</em> is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

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On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

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Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now

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Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

Emily Van Duyne on Emma Bolden’s The Tiger and the Cage

By Emily Van Duyne | November 17, 2022

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

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By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor

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