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The Way She Was
“I never thought I was great,” Barbra Streisand writes in her capacious memoir, but the truth seems to be that for a large part of her life she has flirted with the possibility that she was.
My Name Is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
April 4, 2024 issue
‘A Very Lonely Business’
“How any woman with a family ever put pen to paper I cannot fathom,” Virginia Woolf wrote. Is there a tradeoff between motherhood and artistic creativity?
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
by Maggie Doherty
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
by Gillian Gill
The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London
by D.J. Taylor
Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars
by Francesca Wade
February 11, 2021 issue
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