Siri Hustvedt

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Apr 2020

LitHub

"Separate and Secluded" We Pass Our Days.

Reading is an intimate encounter that does not require social distance. In our current world of restricted movement, the book is a geography where complete freedom remains possible.

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Mar 2019

Town Hall Seattle

Town Hall Seattle

Watch Siri Hustvedt in conversation with journalist Lauren Du Graf about Siri's latest novel, Memories of the Future.

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Mar 2019

The Washington Post

Memories of the Future review in the Washington Post

Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt. Her sentences dance with the elation of a brilliant intellect romping through a playground of ideas, and her prose is just as lively when engaged in the development of characters and story.

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Nov 2018

New York Review of Books

Concentration Camps for Kids: An Open Letter

In the New York Review of Books, dozens of authors signed an open letter denouncing the Trump administration’s tent facility for detaining migrant children separated from their parents in Tornillo, Texas, and the thousands of other migrant children being held.

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Oct 2018

Dr. Guislain Museum and Janssen Research & Development

You Will Not Carry Your Wounds Alone

Victims of torture do not always carry outward signs of what they have endured and survived. The socio-psycho-biological effects of brutality are myriad and dependent on the particular events that occurred, the particular personal histories of the victims, and the particular cultures to which they belong.

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Oct 2018

Dr. Guislain Museum and Janssen Research & Development

Breaking the Chains of Stigma

The Dr. Guislain Museum and Janssen Research & Development today announced that the Center for Victims of Torture has been named the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Guislain "Breaking the Chains of Stigma" Award.

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PEN America

Free Liu Xia

UPDATE: Liu Xia: widow of Nobel laureate arrives in Berlin after release from China

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Nov 2017

Women Who Do

Anne Klein's Fall 2017 #WomenWhoDo advertising campaign is "a battle cry of women’s empowerment and the casting focused on women who push society forward: author Siri Hustvedt; Charli Howard, co-founder of All Woman Project; and Deana Haggag, CEO & President of United States Artists.

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Jun 2017

Penguin Random House

Foreword for Teju Cole

...as the writer Siri Hustvedt notes in her foreword, “Teju Cole really gets around.”