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Here's to New Mrs. Robinson

Here's to New Mrs. Robinson

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Virginia Heffernan
Jun 02, 2022
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In Julia May Jonas’s shocking debut novel Vladimir, the unnamed narrator — a 58-year-old female English professor — takes her lust for a younger colleague to unimaginably dark lengths. How do the ripple effects of patriarchy impact how we understand, even empathize with her monstrous actions? Jonas joins Virginia to mine the depths.

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