Can You Relate? An Interview with ‘The Wife’ Director, Björn Runge
Director Björn Runge finds it easy to relate to women in his filmmaking. He discusses his work on the film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's The Wife with PopMatters' Paul Risker.
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Björn Runge’s ‘The Wife’ Is Not Going to Satisfy Women Viewers
I wanted to find some catharsis in a movie about a woman who has sacrificed everything for her husband because the world would never otherwise see her value.
‘The Female Persuasion’ Exalts White Privileged Feminism and Fails to Subvert Oppression
Wolitzer is an aware author who clearly understands how matrices of power oppress and subjugate. Yet here, her characters only occasionally check their power or privilege.
Love, Loss and Divisions of All Sorts: ‘The Best American Short Stories 2017’
Twenty stories of mixed signals, strange lands, and one-night stands in America and beyond.