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American novelist and feminist philosopher Siri Hustvedt is a wonderful essayist, equally at ease discussing the thoughts of Plato or the lyrics of Tom Waits. Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive gems. -- Martin Chilton * i * In precise yet luxuriant prose Hustvedt uses her family history to explore questions of memory and identity. -- Sophie McBain * New Statesman * Siri Hustvedt takes feminist discourse to a new level . . . Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a powerful collection with an impressive variety of disciplines through whose prism the themes of art, motherhood, neuroscience, misogyny and sex are revealed. It is an engaging and educational read that makes a valuable contribution to contemporary feminist discourse. -- Elizaveta Kolesova * The Upcoming *

In [this] new collection of essays . . . Siri Hustvedt takes feminist discourse to a new level . . . Mothers, Fathers and Others is a powerful collection with an impressive variety of disciplines through whose prism the themes of art, motherhood, neuroscience, misogyny and sex are revealed. It is an engaging and educational read that makes a valuable contribution to contemporary feminist discourse. -- Elizaveta Kolesova * The Upcoming * Praise for Siri Hustvedt's non-fiction 'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian * Siri Hustvedt is best known as a novelist and her novels have received deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist -- Salley Vickers * Observer * She is an inspiring guide to territory where both the humanities and the sciences can throw light on the ways in which we construct meaning in our lives. -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * Her erudition, the sharp clarity of her thinking, the variety of her sources and the supple ways in which she weaves them into personal narrative, coupled with her fearlessness in the face of those aspects of the human condition which are of necessity ambiguous, infuse her work with a rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence. -- Melanie McGrath * Sunday Telegraph * Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind -- Oliver Sacks, author of <i>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat</i>

Memoir, psychoanalysis, feminist theory and literary criticism combine in a thoughtful essay collection . . . Now, as issues of surrogacy and trans motherhood pose fresh challenges, feminism's confrontation with the issue feels newly urgent. Siri Hustvedt joins the fray with a mixture of directness and obliqueness.She takes on motherhood from every direction, combining memoir with ethnography, the history of science and psychoanalysis, literary and art criticism. -- Lara Feigel * Guardian * American novelist and feminist philosopher Siri Hustvedt is a wonderful essayist, equally at ease discussing the thoughts of Plato or the lyrics of Tom Waits. Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive gems. -- Martin Chilton * i * Another outstanding compilation of essays from Hustvedt. As in her previous standout collections, the author shares personal, familial stories as well as incisive ruminations on a breadth of literary, political, arcane, and germane subjects . . . Although each essay is a stand-alone piece, their cumulative effect is staggering. Themes related to sexual hierarchies abound . . . The author, one of our most appealing literary polymaths, quotes innumerable resources, and she maintains a pleasingly nuanced balance between striking originality and intellectual synthesis . . . Brilliant and utterly transfixing. * Kirkus Reviews * In precise yet luxuriant prose Hustvedt uses her family history to explore questions of memory and identity. -- Sophie McBain * New Statesman * Whether she's thinking about the canon ( Don't we all look a little longer at the objects pre-approved for our worship? ), or writing itself ( Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened ), her characteristic incisiveness is readily apparent . . . Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, Mothers, Fathers, and Others blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is. At times, it is as vibrantly disconcerting as orange juice in your muesli; once you've read it, you'll see why that's a compliment. -- Alex Peake-Tomkinson * i * Siri Hustvedt takes feminist discourse to a new level . . . Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a powerful collection with an impressive variety of disciplines through whose prism the themes of art, motherhood, neuroscience, misogyny and sex are revealed. It is an engaging and educational read that makes a valuable contribution to contemporary feminist discourse. -- Elizaveta Kolesova * The Upcoming *

Praise for Siri Hustvedt's non-fiction 'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian * Siri Hustvedt is best known as a novelist and her novels have received deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist -- Salley Vickers * Observer * She is an inspiring guide to territory where both the humanities and the sciences can throw light on the ways in which we construct meaning in our lives. -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * Her erudition, the sharp clarity of her thinking, the variety of her sources and the supple ways in which she weaves them into personal narrative, coupled with her fearlessness in the face of those aspects of the human condition which are of necessity ambiguous, infuse her work with a rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence. -- Melanie McGrath * Sunday Telegraph * Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind -- Oliver Sacks, author of <i>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat</i>

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Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international bestseller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros, Living, Thinking, Looking and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. She has also published a poetry collection, Reading To You, and the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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