Drawn Together

BechdelClick Here to Read:  Drawn Together, Review  of ‘Are You My Mother?’ by Alison Bechdel, Reviewed by Katie Rophie In The New York Times on April 27, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Artist, Draw Thyself (and Your Mother and Therapist) ‘Are You My Mother?’ by Alison Bechdel By Dwight Garner in The New York Times on May 2, 2012.

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The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange

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Click Here to Read:   The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange by Robert R. Holt, Morris Eagle, and Allen Esterson, reply by Frederick C. Crews in the April 21th issue of The New York Review of Books   In response to: The Unknown Freud: An Exchange from the February 3, 1994 issue of the New York Review of Books.

Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics by Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards on this website.

Devil in the detail

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Click Here to Read:  Devil in the detail: Janet Malcolm interview:  How do you approach a journalist who is not only revered for the unsparing way in which she treats her own subjects, but who has also applied her razor-sharp analysis to the very nature of the interview process itself? Gaby Wood meets Janet Malcolm on the Telegraph website on July 28, 2013.

Janet Malcolm, the journalist, has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since the 1960s Photo: Nina Subin

Little Failure review

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Click Here to Read:  Little Failure review – Gary Shteyngart’s hilarious memoir: Gary Shteyngart’s memoir of adapting to life in the US is witty and heartbreaking by Peter Conrad on the Guardian Observer website on March 1,  2014.

Click Here to View:  How far modern authors have to go to survive? on YouTube.

When Gary Shteyngart arrived in New York in 1979, he felt that he ‘had stumbled off a monochromatic cliff and landed in a pool of pure Technicolor’. Photograph: Alamy

Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at YIVO

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