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Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

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

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Madison Becker's Sleep in Beds

Madison Becker made a painting of her husband's sleeping, in which the whole history of women painted a sleep in beds that the artist has clearly just vacated. She was making a point not just about the inundation of her space by others, but about what a woman sees. For now what she sees isn't terribly important, as she herself isn't terriblyimportant. It's the implication of this step, this move into representation that is radical.

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