Sheila Liming is associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of What a Library Means to a Woman (University of Minnesota Press) and Office (Bloomsbury), both published in 2020. Her writing has appeared previously in the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as in The Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Point, The Chronicle Review, and elsewhere.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Fighting Words
Sheila Liming cuts across “Hooked,” the latest book from Rita Felski....
Office Park: A Review of Amazon’s Spheres
"A kind of emptiness makes the green spaces of The Spheres feel more like a branding move on Amazon’s part than a facility to be used by actual workers."...
You Can Read (and So Can This Computer)
Sheila Liming reviews Andrew Piper’s “Enumerations: Data and Literary Study.”...
The Puerility of “Purity”: How Franzen’s Latest Novel Rewrites an Edith Wharton Novel You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Edith Wharton's "The Children," published in 1928, has a lot in common with Jonathan Franzen's "Purity."...
