Juliet Lapidos

There Is a Culture Industry That Gives Its Top Prizes to Women

The big literary awards this year have been positively dominated by female writers.

• Juliet Lapidos
• January 14, 2020

The Day I Learned I Was American

My ability to embrace America on my own terms is a privilege that makes America great.

• Juliet Lapidos
• July 23, 2019

A Brief Taxonomy of Fictional Academics

The most amusing pleasure of a campus novel is a particular sort of reveal: the topic of a character’s book or dissertation.

• Juliet Lapidos
• January 29, 2019

The Key to Nell Zink's Subversive Satire

Nicotine, the author’s third novel, is a humorous meditation on how people balance their public and private selves.

• Juliet Lapidos
• October 7, 2016

Finish That Book!

You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature.

• Juliet Lapidos
• November 5, 2014