"Siri, the computer program that operates as an artificially intelligent personal assistant, appears to know the answers to everything. So seemingly, does the author Siri Hustvedt, or at least such is the impression given by her voluminous, humorous and wide-ranging new collection A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind."
"The novelist’s smart essays on science and the arts bridge the gap between the disciplines, inviting us to look at the world anew."
PEN America is pleased to announce the longlists for the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards.
A short excerpt from the review by Elif Shafak of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind for the British newspaper The Observer.
"Brilliant women finding ways around macho constructs in science and art—and turning them to their advantage—is also the topic of novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt's new essay collection."
Publishers Weekly includes A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind in their Books of the Week, December 5, 2016.
A Q&A between Siri Hustvedt and Powell's Books, an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon.
"Siri Hustvedt's latest book explores why in the realms of art and literature, women still aren't treated the same as men."
Lara Feigel's review for the Financial Times. "According to the American novelist Siri Hustvedt, the likelihood of artists and scientists engaging in genuine conversation is now even smaller than it was when CP Snow delivered his lecture “The Two Cultures” in 1959."
In their advance review of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind Booklist's Donna Seaman writes: "Exceptionally gifted novelist and essayist Hustvedt, on par with Marilynne Robinson, is an ardently curious, caring, and eloquent thinker and writer inspired equally by the arts, neuroscience, and philosophy.
"A wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being."
Bustle.com lists A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind Number 1 in its list of Most Important New Books Of 2016.
