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A great work of criticism can liberate a work of art, to be seen fully, to remain alive, to engage in a conversation that will not ever end but will instead keep feeding the imagination. Not against interpretation, but against confinement, against the killing of the spirit. Such criticism is itself great art.

Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It’s a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality.

Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.

As he rounded the banister and hurried down the stairs, he licked his dry lips. They tasted salty. That's when he knew for sure she'd been crying.