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Maggie Doherty

Selected Writing

The Social Turn

The Social Turn

Harper's, 2025

Katie Kitamura, Audition

Katie Kitamura, Audition

The New Republic, 2025

The Many Guises of Robert Frost

The Many Guises of Robert Frost

The New Yorker, 2025

Duty Dancing

The New Yorker, 2024

The Paradox of the Distance Runner

The Paradox of the Distance Runner

The New Republic, 2024

The Missing Link

The Missing Link

The New Yorker, 2024

The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers

The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers

The New Yorker, 2024

Annie Ernaux's Complex Passions

Annie Ernaux's Complex Passions

The New Republic, 2023

More Than Magazines

More Than Magazines

The Yale Review, 2023

Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things

Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things

The New Republic, 2023

Cormac McCarty's Respite from Loneliness

Cormac McCarty's Respite from Loneliness

The New Republic, 2022

Kathy Acker's Art of Identity Theft

Kathy Acker's Art of Identity Theft

The New Yorker, 2022

How to Elude the Critic

How to Elude the Critic

Parapraxis, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick's Master Class on Life and Literature

Elizabeth Hardwick's Master Class on Life and Literature

The New York Times, 2022

The Abortion Stories We Tell

The Abortion Stories We Tell

The Yale Review, 2022

How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay,

How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay,

The New Yorker, 2022

The New Politics of Desire

The New Politics of Desire

The Nation (2022)

Review of Hanya Yanigahara's To Paradise

Review of Hanya Yanigahara's To Paradise

Air Mail (2022)

The Hard Choices of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Hard Choices of Elizabeth Hardwick

The New Yorker (2021)

Jonathan Franzen, America’s Next Top Moralist

Jonathan Franzen, America’s Next Top Moralist

The New Republic, 2021

Janet Malcolm's Provocations

Janet Malcolm's Provocations

The Nation, 2021

Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother

Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother

The New York Times, 2021

Adjunct Hell

The Nation, 2021

The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich

The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich

The New Yorker, 2020

The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track

The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track

The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021

The Fighter

New York Review of Books, 2020

Feminist Factions United and Filled the Streets for This Historic March

Feminist Factions United and Filled the Streets for This Historic March

New York Times, 2020

Mary Gaitskill's Art of Loneliness

Mary Gaitskill's Art of Loneliness

The Nation, 2020

Unfinished Work

Unfinished Work

The New Republic, 2019

Metafiction and MeToo

Metafiction and MeToo

The Yale Review, 2020, Spring

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