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Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

Oil and Holy Water

Bearing the cross of a natural resource

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

Michelle Dean

Michelle Dean is a journalist and critic. She has contributed to publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s, and Slate.

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Thinking in Public

Michelle Dean and Michelle Orange on women critics, the back of the book, and being called a feminist April 2018
The past few years have marked a golden age for women critics and essayists. In 2017, there were trenchant new collections from Joan Didion, Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay, Mary Gaitskill, and more. And much-anticipated new books of essays by Zadie Smith and Marilynne Robinson have been published in the first few months of this year. In Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion