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In Katie Kitamura’s Novels, Everything Is a Performance

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Maggie Doherty

Midway through Audition, the fifth and latest novel from Katie Kitamura, the unnamed narrator, an actor, muses on a particularly successful moment of performance. She’s the star of a buzzy new play, and in a solo scene at its “hinge,” she must transform from a “woman in grief” to a “woman of action.” During rehearsals, the scene bedeviled her, but since the play’s debut, she’s been eager for the transitional moment to arrive. “I longed for it in a way that was almost carnal,” she reflects.
In Katie Kitamura’s Novels, Everything Is a Performance

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Maggie Doherty

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The Social Turn, by Maggie Doherty

1 month ago | harpers.org | Maggie Doherty

On the morning of February 2, 2023, I exited the subway at 57th Street to find the air growing colder. It had been a warm winter. But the first proper cold front was moving in, and I already felt underdressed. I propelled myself toward the warmth of the Midtown Hilton, where the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA, as it’s styled) was gathering for its winter meeting. APsA has long been the institutional center of psychoanalysis in the United States.
The Social Turn, by Maggie Doherty

1 month ago | harpers.org | Maggie Doherty

On the morning of February 2, 2023, I exited the subway at 57th Street to find the air growing colder. It had been a warm winter. But the first proper cold front was moving in, and I already felt underdressed. I propelled myself toward the warmth of the Midtown Hilton, where the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA, as it’s styled) was gathering for its winter meeting. APsA has long been the institutional center of psychoanalysis in the United States.
“Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” Reviewed

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Maggie Doherty

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college twice, citing a need for independence, and although he spent his middle and later years teaching at universities, he was constantly fleeing them, retreating to farms in rural New England.
The Many Guises of Robert Frost

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Maggie Doherty

1 hour agoLandlord wins battle to keep bull mural on pub if he makes boozer look like a farmA landlord has won a David and Goliath battle to keep a bull mural on the side of his 400-year-old pub - as long as he makes the boozer look like a FARM. Martin Peel was stunned when he was ordered to remove the 8ft-high painting from the wall of The Bull’s Head in the village of Wootton Wawen, Warks. He had commissioned local artist Phil Taylor to create the artwork which cost £1,200 last April.
The Paradox of the Distance Runner

Sep 17, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Maggie Doherty

I still remember my first long run. I was 19, home from college, and it was one of those perfect summer days: bright and blue and not too humid. When I got to the end of the trail, my typical turnaround point, I decided, on a whim, to continue. I added one mile, then another, then another. By the time I returned to my parents’ house, I’d completed 10 miles. My whole system buzzed with adrenaline and endorphins. I felt like a god.
How Seamus Heaney Wrote His Way Through a War

Sep 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | Maggie Doherty

When people asked the poet Seamus Heaney what it was like to be living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the start of the Troubles, he tended to downplay the violence: “Things aren’t too bad in our part of the town.” But things were, in fact, quite bad. A kind of martial law obtained. British soldiers, brought in to suppress a Catholic civil-rights movement, ran checkpoints, frisked young men, and stopped drivers for the smallest infractions.
The Problem of Other Minds | Maggie Doherty

Jun 11, 2024 | nybooks.com | Merve Emre |Maggie Doherty

Maggie Doherty and I have known each other for thirteen years, which I know because I met her at the same party where I met my husband. For the past thirteen years, she’s been the person that I speak to daily about reading, writing, and teaching. Maggie is even-keeled, generous, and, above all, supremely responsible, which is a quality that I sometimes find lacking in the criticism that I read. She’s also the most catholic critic that I know.
Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since?

Apr 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Maggie Doherty

After five months of maternity leave with her second baby, a daughter born on 26 March 2020, Pam Lins felt she was ready to return to work and start a new role. This was the first year of the pandemic, so she had to work remotely while simultaneously raising her newborn and a toddler. Six weeks into her leadership position – about eight months postpartum – she finally admitted something was wrong. “I had really bad anxiety.