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Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

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

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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

Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

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By Bridget Read | April 29, 2016

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

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 <em>The Red Parts</em>, Ten Years Later

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

Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant

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