[Vwoolf] NYTB review with photo of Woolf

[Neverow, Vara S.]

In "Outside the Text," Emily Eakin reviews Michelle de Kretser's novel Theory & Practice. The narrator is a 24-year-old graduate student who, like the author, migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia as a child. She is pursuing an English degree in Melbourne at the peak of the critical theory revolution in 1986 (and after Woolf's letters and diaries were published). The reviewer states that Woolf is "the novelist the narrator cares for most...[y]et Woolf's diaries betray her racism." The reviewer also notes that narrator is disappointed that Woolf did not write the "new kind of novel that would alternate fiction with essays" and instead wrote "her best seller" The Years (there is no mention of Three Guineas in the review). The photograph of Woolf is very striking and takes up more than a third of the space allocated to the article.
The "gift" link to the review is below. I hope it works.
Vara

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/books/review/theory-and-practice-michelle-de-kretser.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.4y1u.mQRlI-hE1_GA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb__;!!KGKeukY!1ESHgtcnrQyM8RVhrJvrlgy-otpBh7n46a7k5nJY3FFP5QpPmvSS3t-0GCLi-n6d9eF0k6CVtse-5pGu2Z1rHnLksP5g$ 


Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugusett and Quinnepiac peoples.
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