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Emmeline Clein
Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification
“For all the girls who weren’t wrong and all the girls who were.”
By
Emmeline Clein
| February 28, 2024
Eileen
Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel
Emmeline Clein Digs in to the New Adaptation, from Page to Screen
By
Emmeline Clein
| December 6, 2023
From
Fleabag
to
Persuasion
, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine
Emmeline Clein on “Dissociation Feminism” and the Cold Embrace of Irony
By
Emmeline Clein
| July 15, 2022
Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls
Emmeline Clein on the American Tradition of Fetishizing Women Writers, Then Forgetting Them
By
Emmeline Clein
| May 9, 2022
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