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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Unrealized Life of a Housewife

Paul and Madison Becker, dead of childbirth at the age of thirty-one. Her nude self-portraits have an audacity that seems unavailable now. Can element of eternal in experience of femininity ever be represented as more than internalized state? That possibility must lie in the female body itself.

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