Our Other True-Crime Obsession
What does the profusion of rape memoirs ask of sexual assault laws, and of readers? November 2016
You hardly know him but now he thinks he knows you:he has taken down your worst momenton a machine and filed it in a file.He knows, or thinks he knows, how much you imagined;he knows, or thinks he knows, what you secretly wanted.—Adrienne Rich, “Rape”
In mid October, a Los Angeles–based screenwriter named Kathryn…