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Dana, Susannah: Like many Americans, I watched the “Neda video”
yesterday. This is, of course, a horribly shorthand way of saying that
I opened a video clip that captures a young Iranian woman dying after
being shot. The movie is short. It is “graphic,” if by graphic we mean
that we see blood, and the violence that can be done to a body. ...
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Hanna, just so you know, I wasn’t calling your marriage “boring”; Cristina Nehring was. No, in all seriousness, I’m glad you posted in response to Loh and to my piece about The Vindication of Love.
Your point that for every crazy artist in a series of chaotic
relationships there’s one in a stable partnership is well-taken.
Virginia Woolf, no ...
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Kerry: Returning to Tsing Loh, for a sec, I want to second your point: It is odd to describe a 20-year-old relationship that produced two kids and a lot of domestic support as a ''failure'' just because it doesn’t last until death do us part and all that. Like you, I find it troubling that we routinely describe marriages and relationships that ...
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Dear XX Factor and Double X readers in NY: Tomorrow is your chance to meet with Double X writers and editors in person. We're co-hosting a meet-up with Guernica, the excellent online literary magazine of politics and culture, from 6 to 10 pm at Le Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street (please rsvp here).
Come join us and raise a glass to celebrate ...
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Dahlia, Hanna, Jess, Abby: This debate over marriage arrives as I am
in a perfect storm of marriage-related texts. In addition to Tsing
Loh’s provocative piece about why everyone should get divorced, I’m in the middle of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese’s controversial account of the 1960s sexual revolution, and Christina Nehring’s excellent A ...
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So Iran's Guardian Council has agreed to do a partial recount of the votes, according to the New York Times
and other sites, in response to street riots and protests larger than
any in the country since 1979. If you haven't yet seen pictures of
what's taking place, you have to check out this gallery
from The Big Picture. (The image of the ...
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Do women novelists work in ''miniature''? This was the question posed by the cover piece in the New York Times Book Review this weekend. The piece was a review of Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women,
a novel that offers a canny fictional portrait of how women's rights
have (and have not) evolved over time. In the book (which I ...
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So I finally saw Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience this weekend. Set in late 2008, as the gilded age gives way to financial collapse, it is story of an escort (played by porn star Sasha Grey) trying to take her business to the next level, and finding, instead, that she is not as in control of her life as she thinks. The film is shot in ...
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Over on Slate, there's a really interesting piece by Ray Fisman about the importance of female mentorship.
Apparently, a recent working paper from the NBER found a way to measure
the effects of female vs. male teachers on students at the Air Force
Academy. It can be hard to distinguish among various complicating
factors when... (To read the ...
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So Barack Obama's historic speech in Cairo is already getting rave reviews. It was, indeed, vintage Obama (if that's not an oxymoron), using his biography as a point of entrance and connection, eschewing what he views as old, false dichotomies, and stressing a pragmatic, hopeful way forward... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website ...