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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her second book, Pure Flame, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Michelle Orange

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…