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Racism, Patriarchy, and Power: Siri Hustvedt on the Toxic Thinking Behind the Supreme Court’s Destruction of Abortion Rights
“Legislating reproductive rights remains a hallmark of authoritarian and fascist governments.”
By
Siri Hustvedt
| June 27, 2022
The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens
“Every myth explains too much, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t truths to be found in the story.”
By
Siri Hustvedt
| December 7, 2021
Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech
“Hate speech renders dialogue impossible.”
By
Siri Hustvedt
| August 11, 2021
Civility and So-Called Objectivity is No Way to Contain a Plague of Lies
Siri Hustvedt on How Easily We've Been Mesmerized by Trump's Norm-Breaking Rhetoric
By
Siri Hustvedt
| September 15, 2020
What is Essential? And Who?
Siri Hustvedt on What the World Values When It's Falling Apart
By
Siri Hustvedt
| July 22, 2020
Tear Them Down:
Siri Hustvedt on Old Statues, Bad Science, and Ideas That Just Won't Die
From the Confederacy to Eugenics the American Past is All Too Present
By
Siri Hustvedt
| July 8, 2020
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Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic
By
Siri Hustvedt
| April 13, 2020
Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations
By
Siri Hustvedt
| December 10, 2019
My Louise Bourgeois
By
Siri Hustvedt
| December 19, 2016
Siri Hustvedt on "After great pain, a formal feeling comes–"
By
Siri Hustvedt
| April 5, 2016
Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman
Siri Hustvedt on Gendered Literature and the Feminization of Feelings
By
Siri Hustvedt
| December 10, 2015
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To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
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by
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The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
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Christina Henry
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"