Elaine Margolin

Elaine Margolin is a book critic whose work was appeared in many venues, including Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Denver Post, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as many literary journals. She lives in Hewlett, New York.

Moments of Grace: On Azar Nafisi’s “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times”

In her new memoir, the author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” describes her troubled relationship with her father....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Not Mad Enough

Updating a feminist classic, “The Madwoman in the Attic,” for the #MeToo era....

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GENDER & SEXUALITY

Interminable Hurt: On Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “American Estrangement”

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new story collection mines the troubled psyches of alienated loners....

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FICTION

Unnurtured and Unloved: On Andrea Bajani’s “If You Kept a Record of Sins”

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FICTION

A Pulse on the Eye: The Art of Helen Frankenthaler

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ART & ARCHITECTURE

Radical Lives: On New Biographies of Rose Pastor Stokes and Dorothy Day

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POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Melancholy Recollections: On Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers”

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AROUND THE WORLD

RELIGION

HISTORY

The Trauma of Pretending: On Adam P. Frankel’s “The Survivors”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY