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Bookmark or Share- Fiction – Bookforum MagazineWHEN ELIZABETH BENNET AND HER SISTERS sit in calico dresses awaiting the favor of a man of “10,000 a year,” the link between that income and that calico remains easily ignored. So easily, that fantasies of Regency romances endure to this day unburdened by discomfiting questions about the origins of the cotton in these drawing-room dramas.
- The cultural criticism of Mark Greif - Gideon Lewis-Kraus - Bookforum ...The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 BY Mark Greif. Princeton University Press. Princeton University Press. Hardcover, 448 pages.
- A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson - Bookforum MagazineWell, one of them might not be a man, exactly—a ghost, perhaps, or a hallucination? But still, it’s an archetypal scene: two men, a roaring fire that’s the only light and heat in sight, and the aftermath of violence. One offers to tell a story; the other wavers. The first makes his case: “It’s just a story. A story can’t hurt.”
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoA big fat man wanting to eat you. It’s a scary fairy tale.” Carmen Maria Machado’s collection Her Body and Other Parties has hit at a particularly potent moment of cultural reckoning over women, sexual violence, and the horror stories women tell—or are told about them. These are the themes that animate the eight stories in Machado’s ...
- The Man in the High Castle - Bookforum MagazineThe Man in the High Castle August 23, 2011 Joshua Cohen. March over to Europe to gawk at its churches and ...
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