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Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
Cecily Brown The Girl Who Had Everything, 1998. Oil on Linen, 100 x 110 inches. (copyright Cecily Brown, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever.)
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Issue: Spring 2014 / Volume 90/2
Published: April 2, 2014
Leslie Jamison is a VQR editor at large and the author of five books: The Gin Closet (Free Press, 2011); The Empathy Exams (Graywolf, 2014); The Recovering (Little, Brown, 2018); Make It Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown, 2019); and most recently the memoir Splinters (Little, Brown, 2024). She teaches...