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Life Peeled of its Skin and The Rape of the Narrator
notice the footnote that says rape of the narrator because it's an awful lot reminiscent of The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
Writing a Novel | by Elizabeth Hardwick | The New York Review of Books
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Disease as Political Metaphor
Disease as Political Metaphor IPunitive notions of disease have a long history, and such notions are particularly active with cancer. There is the "fight" or "crusade" against cancer; cancer is the "killer" disease; people who have cancer are "cancer victims." Ostensibly, the illness is the culprit. But it is also the cancer patient who is made culpable. Widely believed psychological theories of disease assign to the ill the ultimate responsibility both for falling il...
Masterful short stories by one of Peru's finest writers
"A magnificent storyteller, one of the best of Latin America and probably of the Spanish language, unjustly not recognized as such." —Mario Vargas Llosa THE WORD OF THE SPEECHLESS SELECTED STORIESJULIO RAMÓN RIBEYROINTRODU...
nine creepy books
https://email.nybooks.com/t/y-l-ujellk-tktidjuhhh-r/BEST READ AFTER DARK: NINE SPOOKY NYRB CLASSICS FOR 50% OFF Free US shipping on all orders over $50 "What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the...
