How long does it take to shake an ex? According to Lucy Barton, the heroine of now three books by Elizabeth Strout, marriage is a life sentence. Even divorce is…
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We had been dreading it like (forgive me) the plague: the inevitable onslaught of corona-lit. Fortunately, the first few titles out of the gate have been in capable hands.…
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“Love is a solitary thing,” wrote Carson McCullers in her 1951 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. “The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this…
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In 1974, three years after Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar appeared in the United States, Bette Howland published a memoir of her time in a Chicago psychiatric ward. W-3 was…
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Fundamental as it is to the foundation myth of America, the concept of freedom is beleaguered. “Can you think of a more depleted, imprecise, or weaponized word?”, Maggie Nelson…
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THE THIRD AND purportedly final installment of Deborah Levy’s “living autobiography” opens at a flower stall in Shoreditch. Rather than selecting cut stems à la Clarissa Dalloway, Levy buys a banana…