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By Steve Rhodes
Setting aside the Obama story (for now), the now-famed issue of the New Yorker is noteworthy on a couple of other counts.
This piece of artwork in the art listings caught my eye. It’s by Pepe Villegas, and it’s called “Sears Tower, 1997.”
Posted on July 22, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
Let’s catch up.
Women’s Work
“The New York Times Book Review has never exactly embraced passionate advocacy – unless it was promoting Pynchon’s and DeLillo’s place in the postmodernist canon. Even worse, it has become the place where serious feminist books come to die – or more accurately, to be dismissed with the flick of a well-manicured postfeminist wrist,” writes Sarah Seltzer in Bitch. (h/t: Literago).
“Recently, Times editors – in both the daily paper and the Sunday section – have trotted out a particularly insidious formula for bashing feminist authors. First, hire a female reviewer to unleash misogynist tropes in her piece and then, lest she appear prejudiced against her own gender, throw in an illogical, contradictory statement about the importance of a less threatening version of feminism that isn’t so ‘polarizing,’ ‘provocative,’ or ‘strident’.”
Posted on July 8, 2008
