James Salter's depictions of sex as a glorious, writhing inevitability in A Sport and a Pastime divulge certain truths about companionship. Meanwhile, he paints the entire world blue. The fifth in a series of essays on reading as personal experience.
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As her exhibition representing Canada at the 55th Venice Biennale opens, we talk with Shary Boyle about the inspiration behind her new work, what passes for the avant garde these days, and how doing Venice has distracted her from turning forty.
Eve Ensler's latest book, In the Body of the World, sees the Vagina Monologues creator struggling to situate herself in her body. It's part of a new wave of memoirs probing the mind/body dichotomy—which persists, despite the fact that we know better.
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