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Jennifer Levasseur

Jennifer Levasseur

Jennifer Levasseur is co-editor of Novel Voices, Conversations with James Salter, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer at Fifty, and the literary website sacredtrespasses.com. A voting member of the National Book Critics Circle, she has published in Tin House, Glimmer Train Stories, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Brick, America magazine, and World Literature Today.

Jennifer Levasseur reviews 'A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on art, sex, and the mind' by Siri Hustvedt

January–February 2017, no. 388 21 December 2016
Siri Hustvedt revels in ambiguity, the in-between places where the certainties of fact fray. In her idea-driven novels such as The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), and The Summer Without Men (2011), gender is often fluid, identity unfixed, relationships precarious. Her own neurological condition that causes seizure-like flailing, which she chronicles in The Shaking Woman (2010 ... (read more)