Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review, Vogue, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. She was short-listed for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and her first book, Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment, is out now with Repeater. Her next book, Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object, is out in March with MACK.
Philippa Snow
Articles
American Psychos: On “Vanderpump Rules”
Philippa Snow examines the anti-heroism offered by Bravo’s reality show “Vanderpump Rules.”
The Undoing: The Unusual, Unhappy “And Just Like That”
Philippa Snow reviews And Just Like that..., HBO Max's sexless, zombified, tragicomic return to Sex and the City
Megan’s Body: On Bringing Back Megan Fox
Philippa Snow dissects the dark, sexy star text of Megan Fox.
Breaking the Waves: Britney Spears and Lars von Trier in Lockdown
Philippa Snow watches Hulu's Framing Britney Spears and a few other films about the destruction of women at the hands of hateful men.
Pilot Episode: On the Greatness of Kaley Cuoco
Philippa Snow writes in praise of Kaley Cuoco's stunning, elastic, fleet-footed performance in the HBO Max thriller The Flight Attendant.
Like Proper Sexual: On Too Hot to Handle
Philippa Snow binges the reckless hearts and alarmist boomerisms of Netflix's reality dating sensation Too Hot To Handle.
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