The Neoliberal Heart of the 90s Romcom
The personal is political, to the extent that politics itself can be effectively effaced with no detrimental effects.
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Posts Tagged: margaret thatcher
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Glancy
Robert Glancy discusses his sophomore novel, Please Do Not Disturb, growing up under a dictatorship, borrowing and stealing from reality, and his love of proverbs.
...moreFiction is Threatening
Hilary Mantel wrote a story imagining the death of Margaret Thatcher. Predictably, people went nuts. Luckily The Daily Mail was on hand to remind us all of the real values of Britain. The newspaper described how Mantel’s story has “provoked fury across [the] political spectrum”, more so, we can imagine, than any debate about the […]
...moreKilling Margaret Thatcher
As a citizen I suffered from her, but as a writer I benefited. In the Guardian, author Hilary Mantel discusses her new short story about assassinating Margaret Thatcher and why it took her over 30 years to write it.
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