May 22, 2020 ... The book reads like a novel, and an intense one at that: the characters include Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, both of whom would become key ...

Jul 29, 2016 ... Snobbery aside, food does have the power to transport our minds, to heal and to alleviate pain. Like any other stimulant, it shifts our focus.

Sep 15, 2023 ... ... power of love and become at least authentic, if not redeemed. Peter C. Newman had been in thrall to power, but Peter Newman wrote in the ...

, resituating affection itself as a spiritual practice. Near the end of her life, Jewett wrote in a letter of gratitude to a friend: "I never knew how I loved ...

1 Toni Morrison, Sula (New York: Vintage, 2004), 174. 2 "Toni Morrison: The Art of Fiction," interview by Elissa Schappell, in Toni. Morrison: Conversations , ...

Feb 17, 2023 ... I could see why someone facing decisions like this would make time ... “They need to have it to power basic things, but it's not ...

There is no essentially queer claim to make on friendship, though to ask about it as ... In queer art, like queer biography, friendships are everything – people's ...

of artistic greatness and the transformative power of art: "Do you know you are not a great writer? You say to me Ί hope you want to paint like a master ...

Bliss' partner: 'Her little friend, a scholarship artist, now in commercial art, I do like'. Bliss herself, in her letter, consistently refrains from using ...

5 Leo Bersani, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (New York: ... While I agree with Hobby inasmuch as the speaker seems to want to reverse the poem's power ...