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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

by Judith Thurman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux ·2022 ·432 pages
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A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning writer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our time--"a master of vivisection," as Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times. "When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact."


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"But this tidiness can strike a pat, whimsical or overly credulous note ..."

Hermione Hoby· The New York Times Read review ↗ Maybe Someday

"'The mystery of how we become who we are' is her enduring preoccupation — an enigma whose sanctity she succeeds in preserving even as she unravels it ..."

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"Because of the breadth of their topics, Thurman's well-written culture essays in this collection will appeal to many readers, particularly those interested in fashion."

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"Part of what you appreciate in an essayist is her having accepted each of those supposedly fun assignments so that you won't have to ..."

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"This solidifies Thurman as a master of the form."

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