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Pain is one of the great pleasures of reading Mantel. Thematized early, the first novel’s daughter objects against her mother, “Up the stairs you would have come, rushing to take my pain for yourself.” When that pain becomes “a frenzy…an unstemmable riot of pain, hers and hers alone,” mother duly appears to orchestrate the experience, making “every day… Mother’s Day.” Imagined scalpings, the eyeball in the spoon, testicles fed to dogs: violent little excurses punctuate a style Janet Malcolm praises as incisive, “cutting.”—Forthcoming in Regina Janes’ guest column on Hilary Mantel in Salmagundi #222-223, Spring-Summer 2024

Memorial to Venus

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Nabokov and Balthus:

The Erotic Imagination

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

On Learning How To Act:

A Reply to Adam Phillips & The Pleasures of Censorship

Mummy

Disenchantment and Dogma

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Beauty in Struggle:

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The Future of a Bronze Age Religion

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Merit?

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Ferocious Entertainment:

Lionel Shriver

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Notes on Monogamy

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The Home Key #6:

Get Back

If You Would Let Me

Three Books, Two Hats, and an Essay Survival Plan

Roth and the Biographers

On Meritocracy and Faith

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

CAN THE AMERICAN MERITOCRACY GET RELIGION?

A Symposium

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022