: Trump, placentas, feminism (and more): Author Siri Hustvedt describes what shapes her stories #IndiaNEWS I first discovered Siri Hustvedt through her best-known novel, What I Loved (2003), which caught

Trump, placentas, feminism (and more): Author Siri Hustvedt describes what shapes her stories #IndiaNEWS
I first discovered Siri Hustvedt through her best-known novel, What I Loved (2003), which caught my attention through Janet Burroway’s review in the New York Times: “that rare thing: a page-turner at full intellectual stretch�?.Narrated via Leo, an ageing art historian who reflects on family and relationships across several decades, the novel begins as a contemplative look at art, gender and representation, and finishes in the genre of the thriller.Hustvedt’s body of work spans novels, including What I Loved and the Man Booker longlisted The Blazing World (2014), memoir, essays and poetry. Her work ranges across feminism, psychoanalysis, art criticism, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience.We first met seven years ago, when she agreed to be interviewed for my essay collection, The Thinking Woman (2019). I spent two mornings in Hustvedt’s home in Brooklyn that northern winter of 2014, as we talked at length about the nature of play.In early 2022, when Hustvedt and I zoomed into one another’s living spaces to talk about her new essay collection, Mothers, Fathers and Others, positive cases of the Omicron strain of Covid-19 were rising sharply in both New York and Melbourne.The 20 new essays were written between 2019 and 2020, against the backdrop of the latter part of Trump’s presidential rule and the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York.We talked...Read more

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