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Cross Purposes

From The Riddles of the Sphinx, which was published this month by HarperOne. I was sixteen years old when a family friend gave me a copy of Dora, the case…

Cassandra Among the
Creeps

by Rebecca Solnit,

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf…

I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind

by Siri Hustvedt,

By Siri Hustvedt, from a keynote lecture delivered in Paris at this year’s winter meeting of the Société de Neurophysiologie, to be published in a special issue of Clinical Neurophysiology,…

Chronic publicity syndrome

by Elaine Showalter,

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Cross Purposes

Cassandra Among theCreeps

I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind

Chronic publicity syndrome

July 1998

Debug

Cassandra Among the
Creeps