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“I’ll be honest, I was a little shocked to recall the plate of bratwurst and mash that I tucked into three days after my husband died,”
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“I’ll be honest, I was a little shocked to recall the plate of bratwurst and mash that I tucked into three days after my husband died,”
Lauren Elkin begins her book about bodily art with a charming ode to the punctuation mark that she in American English calls a ‘slash’ and we in British English call a ‘stroke’. She likes the way it expresses ‘division yet relation’. Brings disparate things together. Makes space for ambiguity. Blends and blurs. And/or. She writes:
Conservative Christians are convinced they have legitimate concerns about the teaching of American history in public schools. They have complained,
Rachel Sturley pored over paintings and archives to analyze how Virginia Woolf and contemporaries conveyed their own physical pain in art and literature.
The 2022 National Book Award finalist recommends works by Susan Sontag, Natasha Trethewey, and more