
‘The Sanctuary of Pure Expression’
A new biography of Mina Loy shows that the roving modernist saw artistic genius as a means to self-reinvention.
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
by Mary Ann Caws
February 9, 2023 issue
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Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women Writers in London Between the Wars. She is a 2022–2023 Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, where she is working on a book about Gertrude Stein. (February 2023)
‘The Sanctuary of Pure Expression’
A new biography of Mina Loy shows that the roving modernist saw artistic genius as a means to self-reinvention.
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
by Mary Ann Caws
February 9, 2023 issue
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