Friendship Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/friendship/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Friendship Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/friendship/ 32 32 Public Thinker: Nancy K. Miller on Feminist Lives https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-nancy-k-miller-on-feminist-lives/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36362 “Although I was reluctant to generalize about women’s friendship, I was also thinking about a model that would counter the male model of friendship.”

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]]> Passion and Presence: Maria Irene Fornes, 1930–2018 https://www.publicbooks.org/passion-and-presence-maria-irene-fornes-1930-2018/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=25101 In 1999, in an interview I conducted with Maria Irene Fornes on the eve of a ...

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]]> Ethnographers of Ourselves https://www.publicbooks.org/ethnographers-of-ourselves/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=21333 What would you be willing to do for a friend from 20-odd years ago if you suddenly learned they were on the verge of becoming homeless or found them ...

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]]> The Book That Made Me: Learn How to Love https://www.publicbooks.org/the-book-that-made-me-learn-to-love/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:00:53 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=8610 The Book That Made Me is a series about the books that have changed our lives. In this inaugural installment, a National Book Award–winning historian …

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]]> Feminist Auteurs https://www.publicbooks.org/feminist-auteurs/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/feminist-auteurs/ “Dialogue memorized, scenes recalled: we became our own insular world of reference and repetition. If you didn’t know the films, you didn’t know us.” This is protagonist Carrie Wexler’s description of her intense adolescent friendship with Meadow Mori in Dana Spiotta’s powerful new book, Innocents and Others. With it, Carrie throws down a challenge to […]

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]]> Antiheroic Feminism: An Interview with “UnREAL” Co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro https://www.publicbooks.org/antiheroic-feminism-an-interview-with-unreal-co-creator-sarah-gertrude-shapiro/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/antiheroic-feminism-an-interview-with-unreal-co-creator-sarah-gertrude-shapiro/ Sarah Gertrude Shapiro is a difficult person to pin down. With the second season premiere of UnREAL—the Peabody-award-winning series for which she not only writes and produces, but now also directs—on the horizon, Shapiro has made a reluctant entry into the limelight on awards show red carpets, Paley Center panels, and other events for the […]

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]]> Chick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde https://www.publicbooks.org/chick-lit-meets-the-avant-garde/ Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/chick-lit-meets-the-avant-garde/ Ask the average critic, professor, or reader to name an experimental novelist and they will more likely name a man—Pynchon, DeLillo, Foster Wallace—than a woman—Tillman, Winterson, Lessing. Ask them to name the protagonist of an experimental novel and they will probably do the same. Though female authors write experimental novels about women—like Renata Adler’s Speedboat […]

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]]> Sexuality, Counterfactually https://www.publicbooks.org/sexuality-counterfactually/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/sexuality-counterfactually/ Larry Kramer’s The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart is not all that interested in the history of sexuality. At first glance this might seem an odd assertion to make about a novel that ...

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]]> Welcome, Now Keep Out https://www.publicbooks.org/welcome-now-keep-out/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/welcome-now-keep-out/ At first blush, the title of T. Geronimo Johnson’s second novel, Welcome to Braggsville, tempts us with the suggestion of hospitality. Might we be invited into this charming fictional Georgia town, population 712? There we meet D’aron Davenport, a present-day high school senior who has won a scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley. […]

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]]> Lotte Eisner Needs to Fly https://www.publicbooks.org/lotte-eisner-needs-to-fly/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/lotte-eisner-needs-to-fly/ Early in Werner Herzog’s 2006 film Rescue Dawn, German-born American fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), shot down and held captive by the Vietcong, is given the choice to put his signature to a statement denouncing the war and the “corrupt American political establishment” in exchange for an early release. Dengler refuses, telling […]

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