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As Long as You Both Shall Live
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall explores the various fictions a mother and son must tell themselves and each other when their visions of life diverge.
Anatomy of a Fall
a film directed by Justine Triet
April 18, 2024 issue
What’s Your Type?
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You and Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood play with the novel’s traditional concern with character types.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
March 7, 2024 issue
Making It Big
In Roald Dahl’s stories, cruelty begets cruelty, children grow large, adults grow small, and everyone is trapped in a fun house of dirty, depthless mirrors.
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected
by Matthew Dennison
December 22, 2022 issue
The Act of Persuasion
The drama of Elizabeth Hardwick’s life emanated from an elemental restlessness and a desire for sovereignty over her intellect and emotion.
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Cathy Curtis
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
edited and with an introduction by Alex Andriesse
April 21, 2022 issue
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