Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

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

<em>Eileen</em> Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

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 <em>Fleabag</em> to <em>Persuasion</em>, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

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Emmeline Clein on “Dissociation Feminism” and the Cold Embrace of Irony

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Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

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Emmeline Clein on the American Tradition of Fetishizing Women Writers, Then Forgetting Them

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