A best-selling novelist and political activist in her native Italy, she was admired for her sensitive depictions of women and their predicaments. Recently rediscovered, her work has lost none of its subversive force.
Tag: Writing and Writers
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Patrick Modiano Says Good Books Make Good People
“A book that profoundly moves or thrills you makes you a more sensitive person, and therefore a better one,” says the 2014 Nobel laureate, whose new book is “Scene of the Crime.” “That is its moral function.”
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Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82
He brought his own sometimes painful blue-collar experiences to bear in acclaimed stories exploring issues of race, class and power in American life.
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Book Review: ‘Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory’ by Janet Malcolm
The celebrated journalist’s brief final book, “Still Pictures,” may well be her most personal, assembling photographs and vignettes of her family, friends and childhood as an immigrant to America.
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Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91
By turns elusive and confessional in public, she used dark satire to explore the divides between men and women.