Siri Hustvedt

“She’s neither a scientist nor a philosopher in the technical sense – she’s well-known as a novelist and essayist – but I do think of her as a philosopher and feminist thinker. She reads and writes influentially about science, and is deeply aware of how it matters. She is in fact highly respected in the scientific world for her insights, which are also the output of an artistic mind – she writes astute art criticism as well. I had a hard time choosing one book, but I want to mention just the latest collection of essays, Mothers, Fathers, and Others. It’s about many things, but a lot of it is about motherhood, which matters supremely, and needs to be considered in a different way from the public discourse about it: all of us have mothers, insofar as all of us were contained in someone else’s body. The first essays explore the worlds of her grandmother and mother, and they travel on, as we all do – from begetting, influencing, becoming, to reading, writing, feeling, retelling, recalling.” Read more...

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