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Emma Staffaroni
A New Era for Boarding School Literature
Emma Staffaroni on the End of a (Problematic) Fairy Tale
By
Emma Staffaroni
| September 7, 2023
What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?
Emma Staffaroni Calls for Stories About Living Through It
By
Emma Staffaroni
| April 20, 2023
On
Women Talking
and the Unreliable Narrators of Post-MeToo Literature
Can Sarah Polley’s Film Adaptation Capture Miriam Toews’s Feat of Storytelling?
By
Emma Staffaroni
| November 28, 2022
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