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Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt is a novelist and scholar who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, four collections of essays, and a work of nonfiction. Hustvedt’s scholarly work is interdisciplinary. It draws insights from literature, visual art, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience, and epigenetics. She has lectured at international conferences on neuroethics, neurophysiology, philosophy, art and memory, and published papers in science and other academic journals. In 2012 she was awarded the Gabarron International Prize for Thought and Humanities. Her novel The Blazing World was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction in 2014. In 2019, she won The European Essay Prize for her essay on the mind-body problem, The Delusions of Certainty, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and The Princess of Asturias Award.


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.”
June 27, 2022  By Siri Hustvedt
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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.”
December 7, 2021  By Siri Hustvedt
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Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

“Hate speech renders dialogue impossible.”
August 11, 2021  By Siri Hustvedt
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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
September 15, 2020  By Siri Hustvedt
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What is Essential? And Who?

Siri Hustvedt on What the World Values When It's Falling Apart
July 22, 2020  By Siri Hustvedt
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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
July 8, 2020  By Siri Hustvedt
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Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

"Separate and Secluded" We Pass Our Days
April 13, 2020  By Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

Considering Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error: Foundations of a New Science of Consciousness
December 10, 2019  By Siri Hustvedt
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My Louise Bourgeois

Siri Hustvedt on the complex, brilliant, contradictory artist
December 19, 2016  By Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt on “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–”

April 5, 2016  By Siri Hustvedt
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Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

Siri Hustvedt on Gendered Literature and the Feminization of Feelings
December 10, 2015  By Siri Hustvedt
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