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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2019, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New York Times Magazine. (November 2020)

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The Loss of Shared Grief

November 19, 2020 issue

Miriam Toews in costume as the character Esther during the filming of Silent Light, directed by Carlos Reygadas (left) and set in a Mennonite settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico, July 2006

The Post-Traumatic Novel

On Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments,’ Miriam Toews’s ‘Women Talking’ and Rachel Cline’s ‘The Question Authority’

Women Talking

by Miriam Toews

The Question Authority

by Rachel Cline

The Testaments

by Margaret Atwood

March 12, 2020 issue

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