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Maggie Doherty

Maggie Doherty, a doctoral student in the Harvard English department, studies 20th-century American literature and culture.

Anatomy Artist

A FIST-SIZED HEART, beating in a stranger’s chest. A headless torso, stashed in a walk-in closet. A flap of loose flesh, drooping over a man’s eye. A lone big toe, hacked from a foot, the toenail painted blood red. ...

MAGGIE DOHERTY

The Kind of Woman She Will Be: Cara Hoffman on the Return of the (Female) Soldier

MY HIGH SCHOOL class president was an impressive person. Intelligent, dedicated, quietly intense, amiable but not too charming, the kind of student admired by peers and teachers alike. When we graduated, I — like many of my lucky classmates — went to a ...

MAGGIE DOHERTY

"Night Film" by Marisha Pessl: Two Reviews

USE YOUR ILLUSION: Edan Lepucki on Marisha Pessl's Night Film: IN A SCENE from Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona, one woman tells a story to another woman, who is comatose. As I recall it, the first woman describes how she went ...

MAGGIE DOHERTY, EDAN LEPUCKI

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Novelist Goes to the Movies: Marisha Pessl's "Night Film"

MAGGIE DOHERTY

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