As poet Marge Piercy sees it, we are bus station waiting rooms through which people pass, each leaving an imprint.
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We Are Waiting Rooms at Bus Stations
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Do Novels Open Us Up or Contain Us?
A recent Zadie Smith article explores whether novels open us up or contain us. Her answer: Both.
Mrs. Dalloway and the Gift of Aging
Friday My wife Julia alerted me to a luminescent Atlantic article about women disappearing as they grow older. Although some regard this as a problem, author Akiko Busch draws on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to show how women can turn it to their advantage. First, the apparent problem. When women are treated as objects, they […]
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Why an Af-Am Meg Is Important
Having an African American Meg in the film version of Wrinkle in Time adds an important dimension to the novel.
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