Michelle Dean
The New Republic
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Michelle:
A Map of Complications
Tensions between two groups of women animate her new novel. → Read More
Pauline Kael’s Long Delayed Big Break
Through years of setbacks and discouragement, Kael insisted that movies should be free from stereotypes, unpretentious, and fun. → Read More
Educated by Tara Westover review – escape from a Mormon fundamentalist family
A coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young woman’s efforts to study her way out of a tough childhood in Idaho and find herself through books → Read More
The Company She Kept
Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals → Read More
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit review – ending women’s silence
A collection of essays on ‘further feminisms’ from the writer who inspired the term ‘mansplaining’ is convinced that new stories will open up the world → Read More
Will the Menendez murders become America's next true-crime TV hit?
Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders revisits a crime that shocked the US and tries to follow in the footsteps of The People v OJ Simpson → Read More
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton and Shattered review – was Trump’s victory inevitable?
Susan Bordo blames sexism for Clinton’s defeat while Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes point to her campaign’s incompetence → Read More
The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America?
The US is in crisis - what about its literature? Michelle Dean reports on the 2017 Granta list of writers under 40, which is as diverse as the country itself → Read More
Boss sounds: eight essential podcasts by women
Whether they’re reporting on police brutality, chatting pop culture or investigating murders, women are making the must-hear podcasts of the moment. From 2 Dope Queens to Call Your Girlfriend, here’s a guide to the best → Read More
Voices of America
Can podcasts tell us more than stories of individual obsession? → Read More
The Art of Paying Attention
Why we need critics to think about power and how it works. → Read More
The Serendipiter’s Journey
2016 was a bad year for most people, but it was especially so for Gay Talese. Now 85, he is at an age when most of his time should be spent collecting the thin portfolio of lifetime-achievement awards available to journalists. → Read More
Neil Gaiman: ‘I like being British. Even when I’m ashamed, I’m fascinated’
The books interview: The award-winning author on his new book of Norse mythology, Brexit and being an Englishman in New York → Read More
Siri Hustvedt: ‘Trump was elected because misogyny is alive and well’
The American author on feminism, the arts-science divide and misogyny in the presidential election → Read More
Loving Is History at its Best
The movie shows how one couple overturned a racist law—without the usual grand speeches. → Read More
The rise of Betches: ‘Our audience is narcissistic – and self-aware’
How did three young women turn their snarky Instagram posts and celeb-gossip blogs into a successful global brand? Meet the meme girls who speak the language of millennials → Read More
Dan Brown: cracking the code of his enduring appeal
Everyone makes fun of these books – and film versions like Inferno. Yet the author of the Da Vinci Code is still hugely popular. How the hell does he do it? → Read More
How Paul Beatty's win shakes the Jonathan Franzen-loving US literati
The Sellout, a challenging satire on US race relations, was overlooked when it was published, but now Beatty is the first American to take the Man Booker prize → Read More
Brit Bennett on writing about abortion: 'People visibly get uncomfortable'
The debut novelist opens her book The Mothers with an abortion scene, and it is being hailed as one of the fall’s best new books → Read More
Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'
In his new novel, his first since the startling 2014 success An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine explores memory, forgetting, and the Aids crisis → Read More