A Coalition Government of the Heart

and the kind of computational power that would allow this algorithm to operate in the kind of time that it needs for that insight to matter is massive.

But ballet will likely always be tied up in our culture with ideas about femininity—both potentially confining ones.These mysterious and private rituals of young women—these dark fairy tales—are at the heart of Abbotts work.

Can you talk about the language? It feels like a subversive choice to avoid being lyrical or adoring about the female body.I remember our teacher assuring us the light would hit the netting inside and it would look very dramatic! But I was also just old enough to sense a slightly queasy feeling among a few parents.Or do you mean the one has turned into the other in the way that everything gets watered down? Last years evasive.

noting that how a dancer prepared her pointe shoes was a ritual as mysterious and private as how she might pleasure herself.It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.

Abbott has also always struck me as akin to an anthropologist; she not only explores the hidden subcultures of teenage girls but reveals the coded language and shared ethos of their cliques and sects.

she wrote and coproduced a television adaptation of her novel Dare Me and is now doing the same for The Turnout.an eighteen-year-old singer posed as a cheerleader easily turns a boyfriends bedroom into a sea of flames.

Any year when we get to see female-centered and female-crafted works of art as great as Nomadland or I May Destroy You is a good year indeed.Though Im not sure the punishment matters because the hold she retains over those stories and the popular imagination is far greater.

Can you talk about the language? It feels like a subversive choice to avoid being lyrical or adoring about the female body.It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.