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‘My Work’ by Olga Ravn

Since reading it two years ago, there’s no book I recommend more frequently than Ravn’s deeply introspective “novel” My Work. I use the quotes because while it is partially fictional, it also careens between memoir, poetry, essay, correspondence, dialogue and newspaper headlines as it explores the struggles of giving birth, being a wife and creating art in a world that seems to be going crazy. It probes one of the great questions that plagues every artist: how can I balance my art with my responsibilities?