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By Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Magazine, May 5, 2016 FOR MOST OF her life, Virginia Woolf suffered from what she called “looking-glass shame,” an aversion to seeing herself in mirrors. She wrote about it late in her career, not long before her suicide, recalling that the trouble began with one particular mirror. ItContinue reading “The Forced Heroism of the ‘Survivor’”