Jessica Gross
Articles
Marginalia
Jessica Gross marks the margins of Sloane Crosley's "Look Alive Out There."
This New Era
Jessica Gross on Virginia Heffernan's "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art".
Earnest Underbelly
I genuinely enjoyed "Miss Fortune." I found myself not merely smiling, but cackling — and, in turn, tearing up or sighing with sad recognition.
Poetry and Persona
The essays in Queen of the Fall describe, with wrenching precision, a woman's inability to have children.
Looking Out, Looking In
No one can simultaneously look outside and write.
The Art of the Essay
Essayists on their obsessions with female celebrities.
Unsuited to Age Group
The PEN Panel on Sex and Violence in Children’s Literature
But What’s Underneath?
“The Problem with Perfection”
The professor of death and the problem with perfection.
Becoming Human: On Spike Jonze’s "Her"
Spike Jonze’s HER and how artificial intelligence can teach you to become more human
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