Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world. Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you.
Excerpt: It is a particular irony of the times we live in that a woman of colour helps to suspend any ongoing awareness of the deathliness of American history by retelling her personal trauma.
With her, all our pasts — the queer one, the feminist one, and the ostensibly straight one — become infinitely more complicated, and infinitely richer.
Taking all these intertwining histories into account reveals an archaeology of power. This is not just a history of Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state.
