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Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom
Bridget Read Considers the Future of Sex, and Emily Witt's
Future Sex
By
Bridget Read
| October 13, 2016
Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole
On a Body of Work That Ends Without Ending
By
Bridget Read
| May 16, 2016
Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her
She was balls-to-the-walls writing and dying
By
Bridget Read
| April 29, 2016
Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House
Wide Sargasso Sea
and The Limits of Bronte Feminism
By
Bridget Read
| April 21, 2016
On Maggie Nelson's
The Red Parts
, Ten Years Later
How the book paved the way for the
The Argonauts
By
Bridget Read
| April 5, 2016
Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant
Why Our Best Biographer Hates the New Ted Hughes Biography
By
Bridget Read
| January 26, 2016
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How to Read a Movie Like a Book
By
Bridget Read
| December 3, 2015
In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel
By
Bridget Read
| October 30, 2015
American Women: Masters of the Short Story
By
Bridget Read
| August 19, 2015
David Foster Wallace, Reluctant Movie Star
On the Perils and Pleasures of Hagiography
By
Bridget Read
| July 30, 2015
Wake Up Dead Man
Knows the Whodunnit is Inherently Political. (It's also a Perfect Movie.)
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