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‘My sister, my God. It’s a visceral pain that never goes away’: Miriam Toews on a memoir of suicide and silence

Having fled the strictures of her Mennonite upbringing, the Canadian author searches for meaning in her older sister’s death: ‘She taught me how to stay alive’

The Guardian - US · Aug 27, 2025

A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews review – a searingly intimate memoir

One of Canada’s most admired writers delivers a triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Walrus · Oct 3, 2023

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Miriam Toews: ‘Forgiveness is a religious construct, a means of maintaining the status quo’

The Canadian author tells Helen Brown about how two devastating family suicides informed her latest novel, ‘Fight Night’, and what the Mennonite community made of the Oscar-winning film adaptation of ‘Women Talking’

The Independent UK · May 22, 2023

Film show: Director Sarah Polley on her movie 'Women Talking'

To mark International Women's Day, we bring you the story of an isolated religious community battered by sexual abuse. "Women Talking" stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand, among others. Canadian writer-director Sarah Polley's adaptation of Miriam Toews's 2018 novel is based on a real-life mass rape…

France 24 · Mar 8, 2023

What to stream: 'Women Talking' and the best of Sarah Polley as actor, filmmaker

Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film “Women Talking” arrives on DVD and Blu-ray this week, two weeks after its VOD debut on Amazon, iTunes and other platforms. It’s just in time to catch up with the drama before the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, where the film is nominated for best picture…

Tribune News Service · Mar 7, 2023

Women Talking draws from a true story of mass sexual assault to re-imagine how a society can deal with trauma

In Oscars contender Women Talking, inspired by a devastating true story of mass sexual assault, a group of women in an isolated community grapple with whether to forgive, stay and fight, or leave.

ABC News · Feb 16, 2023

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Women Talking review – a stellar ensemble energises Sarah Polley’s timeless parable

The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2023

Women Talking review: This meditation on abuse and survival deserves the Best Picture Oscar

Sarah Polley’s superlative film, based on Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel, features an all-star cast on staggering form

The Independent UK · Feb 9, 2023

How we made Oscar-winning Women Talking with Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley: ‘I love an unpalatable woman’

The director and stars discuss 2023’s most incendiary film, which just won an Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2023

Many ways "Women Talking" asks for mercy

Sarah Polley's Oscar-nominated take on the novel makes a powerful change that adds dimension to the Mennonite story

Salon · Feb 4, 2023

Oscars 2023: who will win? And who should win?

All eyes are on this Sunday as the awards race heats up

Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2023

'Women Talking' review: A powerful, moving tribute to quiet strength

Miriam Toews' 2018 novel "Women Talking" was inspired by a horrific real-life story: In a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women were repeatedly and violently raped by men in the community, who would use an animal anesthetic to render the victims unconscious as they slept in their…

Tribune News Service · Jan 3, 2023

Top 10 movies of 2022

1. "Women Talking." I worry about the movies tackling beloved books, especially if they're by the great Canadian novelist Miriam Toews. But writer/director Sarah Polley was the ideal person to craft this searing, disarmingly funny tale of abused Mennonite women who think they must choose between God and their lives.

Tribune News Service · Dec 28, 2022

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Los Angeles Times · Dec 27, 2022

Sexism on set made Sarah Polley 'squirm.' So she made a film by a new set of rules

NEW YORK — Sarah Polley wasn't really looking for a project to direct when she was approached about adapting Miriam Toews' novel "Women Talking" into a film. Since the release in 2012 of "Stories We Tell," a deeply personal documentary about Polley's late mother, the Canadian filmmaker has spent most…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 23, 2022

Review: Ensemble acting doesn’t get much better than in Sarah Polley’s brilliant ‘Women Talking’

For much of “Women Talking,” Sarah Polley’s suspenseful and galvanizing fourth feature, we are in the hayloft of a barn overlooking a remote stretch of farmland, with a lonely dirt road winding toward the horizon. The sunlight spilling in through the window seems to beckon to the eight women who…

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2022

Radical dialogue and open roads in 'Women Talking'

In Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” there is the dialogue on screen and another off it

Texas Observer · Nov 22, 2022

Talking is Golden

Stars Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy on matters worth discussing in Sarah Polley’s emotive feminist feature, Women Talking.

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Los Angeles Times · Sep 12, 2022

The women of 'Women Talking' react to taking festival season by storm

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and other actors in the ensemble of Sarah Polley's extraordinary drama "Women Talking" were walking into the Werner Herzog Theatre for a post-screening Q&A on Sept. 4 just as a few members of the audience were leaving the venue. A friend…

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2022

Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

Novelists including Johny Pitts, Monica Ali and Nina Stibbe – plus Observer critics – on their essential holiday books

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2022

Fight Night by Miriam Toews review – a war cry for rebellious women

The relationships between three generations – child, mother, grandmother – are brilliantly observed in a novel full of humour and pain

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2022

Fight Night by Miriam Toews review – a paean to the strength of women

The Canadian author once again mines her cultural background in a wonderfully drawn celebration of intergenerational bonding

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