Foreword for Teju Cole
...as the writer Siri Hustvedt notes in her foreword, “Teju Cole really gets around.”
Siri Hustvedt and the Art of Thinking
Subashini Navaratnam reviews A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind for independent magazine PopMatters.
Página12 reviews A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
"Siri Hustvedt works in circles or ellipses that overlap and intersect at certain points, and all these mental spaces spin recurrent thoughts around fundamental questions of humanism."
Interview with Infobae
"Misogyny helped Trump be elected president" Siri Hustvedt tells Carolina Isasi in Madrid. In this interview for Infobae, Siri spoke about the prejudices that still remain against women, her work with psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and the fears of the new government in her country.
Close Encounters: Siri Hustvedt with Jarrett Earnest
Her latest book, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, brings together her uniquely nuanced, knowledgeable, and sophisticated approach to interdisciplinary readings of science, art, and the humanities.
Interview with Kulturzeit
Siri Hustvedt was interviewed by Susanne Becker for German culture magazine Kulturzeit.
PEN America World Voices Festival: Festival Prelude
"House Divided" unites artists, writers, thinkers, and politicos in a one-of-a-kind event to be held at the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union.
Encounter with award-winning American author Siri Hustvedt
"More than 100 students with backgrounds in English philology and science attended a PD-organized encounter with award-winning American author Siri Hustvedt at Madrid’s Complutense University on April 25, 2017."
Brooklyn theorist, novelist publishes new book of essays
"Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and unparalleled insights from many disciplines, Hustvedt has collected her most penetrating writings into this eloquent trilogy."
El País reviews A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Carles Geli reviews Siri Hustvedt's latest book for Spanish newspaper El País.
"Neuroscientists have long sought the genetic and biochemical causes of suicide. Is it an advance or a setback? The writer Siri Hustvedt is not clear either."
Scandinavian American Theater Company Presents US Theater Debut of The Summer Without Men
"The Summer Without Men is an adaptation of American author Siri Hustvedt's bestselling novel by Karen-Maria Bille and Peter Langdal. In the adaptation, only three actresses play a gallery of 12 characters, seamlessly sliding from one to the next." Admission is free. April 3, 2017, at Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York.
A new book by Siri Hustvedt offers challenging ways to understand how misogyny became so deeply embedded in our culture
...the novelist, essayist, scholar, and veritable Renaissance woman Siri Hustvedt presents an alternate version of feminism and the feminist critique in her new book, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind. With arguments that span the humanities, neuroscience, and psychiatry, she offers challenging ways to understand how misogyny became so deeply embedded in our culture and how we (or, at least, practitioners in those fields) can begin to combat it.
65 Writers and Artists Urge Trump to Reconsider Visa Ban
Sixty-five of the most prominent names in literature have sent a joint letter with PEN America to President Donald Trump today, urging him not to impose a new immigration ban that would affect the ability of artists, writers, and thinkers to travel to the United States.
A New and Different Way to See Ourselves
Author and Washington Post critic Sarah L. Kaufman reviews A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind for Free Press Online. "It could have been titled A Woman Looking at Societal Twaddle and Calling Its Bluff."
Siri Hustvedt’s thoughts on art, science and the human condition
In her review of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind, Kate Womersley of Britain's Spectator writes: "As her latest essays show, the American novelist is prepared to take on anything, from sculpture to cybernetics."
