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The Mother’s Rage: Elena Ferrante and the Torment of Maternal Love
For many years, it seemed as though every colleague, student, or friend was urging me to read Elena Ferrante.
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Be more Alice! The fictional characters with lessons for lockdown
Should we be suspicious of the idea that fiction can help us to live meaningful lives?
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Death still driving
I agreed to write this piece a lifetime ago – at the end of February, when a certain virus was just hovering at the edge of consciousness
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Private parts: writers and the battle for our inner lives
At the end of last year, an international group of writers drafted a petition decrying the escalation of state surveillance and calling for a digital bill of rights to protect the privacy of all global citizens.
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