Emmeline Clein

Emmeline Clein is the author of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Knopf, 2024) and Toxic (Choo Choo Press, 2023). She covers books at Cultured, and her writing has been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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Articles

The Wide Umbrella of “Queen”
Emmeline Clein interviews Tourmaline about her new book “Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson.”
Emmeline CleinJul 10
- Biography & Autobiography
- Gender & Sexuality
Never a Patient Woman
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Emmeline CleinJun 24
A Trapdoor of Her Own
Emmeline Clein considers girls, games, and heterosexual monogamy in her review of Sally Rooney’s new novel, “Intermezzo.”
Emmeline CleinOct 6, 2024
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
Emmeline CleinAug 26, 2024
- Poetry
- Gender & Sexuality
TrimSpa, Baby
Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Emmeline CleinAug 13, 2024
United in Torment: On Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom”
Emmeline Clein reviews Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom.”
Emmeline CleinMay 18, 2024
- Fiction
Violent Revelations: On Heather Lewis’s “Notice”
Emmeline Clein reviews the reissued edition of “Notice” by Heather Lewis.
Emmeline CleinApr 4, 2024
- Fiction
The Body and Its Denizen: On Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking”
Emmeline Clein reviews Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
Emmeline CleinJan 13, 2024