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Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a volume of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. She is the author most recently of the novel A Book of Heaven. (December 2018)
Sing, Goddess
On ‘The Silence of the Girls’ by Pat Barker and ‘Circe’ by Madeline Miller
The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
Circe
by Madeline Miller
December 20, 2018 issue
The Shock of the Little
Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse
an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, London, December 13, 2014–September 6, 2015, and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2016–January 22, 2017
July 14, 2016 issue
The ‘Darkness and Radiance’ of the Tale
The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold
by Jeanette Winterson
The Winter’s Tale
by William Shakespeare, directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, Garrick Theatre, London, October 17, 2015–January 16, 2016
May 12, 2016 issue
Seduced by the Food on Your Plate
Sandra Gilbert’s ‘Culinary Imagination’
The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity
by Sandra M. Gilbert
December 18, 2014 issue
Queens of the Night
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
by Marina Warner
One Thousand and One Nights
a retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh, with a foreword by Mary Gaitskill
March 20, 2014 issue
‘A Woman Running from the News’
Reading David Grossman’s latest novel feels like being plunged into a stranger’s dream
To the End of the Land
by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
October 13, 2011 issue
A Double Life in Black and White
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
April 7, 2005 issue
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