Becca Rothfeld’s Exuberant Ode to the Risks of Rapture
There is no experience of longing that is not, at the same time, an ethical revelation.
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The Violent Truths of ‘Brutalities’
The impulse to simplify the complicated nature of touch, argues Margo Steines, is not just an intellectual but an ethical failure.
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“Tough Little Numbers”: Women and Criticism
Dean’s book is a riposte to this systematic decentering, providing a counter-narrative to the well-worn tales of American literary critical fathers and sons.
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Double Binds: On Morgan Jerkins’s ‘This Will Be My Undoing’
Failure—damned if you do, damned if you don’t—is built into the double bind of black womanhood.
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