Dissecting a marriage at book length is a high-risk wager for an author: You will lay yourself bare for our scrutiny, and we will take your side. But will we?

From laura kipnis:
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I reviewed two books from what I recently heard referred to as the 'divorce-industrial-literary complex.' Enjoy! Especially all you married discontents. newrepublic.com/article/180388…

Can't wait to read the rest of Kurt Andersen's new comedy of manners 'Take My Wife, Please' starring Bill Ackman as 'the protagonist'--the Atlantic excerpt is hilarious. Bway no doubt soon beckoning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Oh Mr Hitchens!” I reminisce, maybe a tad ambivalently, about CH for an upcoming special issue of Critical Quarterly about him.
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Hoo boy. Between Rachel Aviv on JCO in The New Yorker and laura kipnis on Janet Malcolm in Bookforum Magazine, this has been a golden season for profiles of the unreliable narrator 🔥

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Finally working my way through Best American Essays ‘23 and when I finished laura kipnis’s essay about gender it was so damn good I had to read it again. Brilliant work about the ways capitalism transforms gender expression. Plus she coins the term “sexual gargoyle” and drags JKR

'Reading 'The Apartment' made me feel like an aging gentleman in a music hall watching a skillful coquette do the cancan[...]craning my neck to see more, to the point of inducing a cramp.' laura kipnis at her masterly best. bookforum.com/print/3002/jan…

Every good writer is tempted to perform Malcolm on Janet Malcolm. laura kipnis does something better: She just writes as herself, one close reader to another. bookforum.com/print/3002/jan…

Joe Weisberg—the spy who dumped the CIA, went to therapy, and now makes incredible television. wired.trib.al/oDWVNQx

The latest issue of Bookforum is out now! With essays by Justin Taylor, Audrey Wollen, Hanif Abdurraqib, Leo Robson, Jane Hu, Michael W. Clune, Blair, laura kipnis, and so much more.

Please subscribe, spread the word, gift a subscription, and enjoy.bookforum.com/print/3002

I wrote about the ever-surprising Janet Malcolm--adultress-trickster-confessionalist--for Bookforum Magazine bookforum.com/print/3002/jan…

Because I was obsessed with The Americans I was forced to hunt down its creator Joe Weisberg and profile him for @Wired. #TheAmericans wired.com/story/joe-weis…

Best American Essays 2023 is out today, I‘m thrilled to be included w/ 20 wonderful writers inc Eric Borsuk Robert Anthony Siegel Merrill Joan Gerber Chris Dennis Sandra H Eliason Angelique Stevens Many thx to Vivian Gornick, Mariner Books

I am still having a little trouble believing it, but my new novel has a cover!

(the book doesn't come out until March, but you can read more about it here: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…)

.Naomi Klein's new book was a lot of fun to write about, also 'intellectually adventurous,' 'loopily personal,' and 'a political detective story.'

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Thrilled that Vivian Gornick selected my essay 'Gender: A Melee' from Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics for Best American Essays 2023 alongside these other great writers. Merrill Joan Gerber Chris Dennis Sandra H Eliason Xujun Eberlein
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From laura kipnis's excellent review of Claire Dederer's Monsters: 'It’s easy to fulminate about consumer capitalism, less easy to contemplate the extent to which the carceral mentalité of our political-economic moment saturates even our imaginations.'

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I had some disagreements with the politics of Monsters (read my review below), but I think it was written to provoke them.
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“Monsters” is Claire Dederer’s retort to all the men who have made her feel trivialized over the years for responding emotionally instead of intellectually to movies and art, writes laura kipnis. on.tnr.com/3p7R54S

“Sociology became the tool I used to make sense of my sexuality and religious faith and the persistent ways that sex and religion collide more broadly in American culture and politics.”

#PRRIPublicFellow @kelsyburke
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