We are all Mrs Dalloway now
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
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George Monaghan
George Monaghan is an editorial assistant at the New Statesman and writes the Substack Peaceable Land.
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The rise of Gracie Abrams
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James Salter’s machismo myth
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