Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Aug 1, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Michael Kazin |Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen |Emily Greenhouse

Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety. Brianna Di Monda ▪ Spring 2023 In Sarah Polley’s new film Women Talking, which won Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Academy Awards, a group of women ranging in age from their mid-teens to their seventies meet in a hayloft to discuss whether or not to leave their Mennonite colony.

Jun 14, 2023 | yalereview.org | Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Like Bradatan, who scours modern intellectual history for some psychic or existential consolation among the rubble of fail­ure, Marcus is looking for the creative compensations to political setbacks, in some sense embracing the idea that one’s misfortune can be turned into one’s muse.