Her comedy stylings are not for me. There’s also a noticeable void of anti-pseudoscience condemnation in the Goop chapter. But even when she introduces her searing dissections of global political misdirection via the prism of sappingly irrelevant subcelebrities, Lindy West is still a cultural force.
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He’s got his finger on the wrong pulse, the putrid blob of bro culture and anti-pc dinosaurs. This is a fremdscham-inducing collection of clunky essays that are a long decade old, none of them written specifically for this book. The slivers of interrogation related to the title … Read more
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For essays about rejecting motherhood and Christianity and about living abroad, this collection was surprisingly unresonating. There’s also an unnecessary and specific march of ‘this is what tools of the patriarchy would say’. Keturah confronts cultural confines except for those that work for her, with a blind spot … Read more
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At least three works in a row are variations of the same essay on globalism. The introduction on the power of art is trenchant. The rest I skimmed were meandering, dense, and glancing, even when I wanted them to pierce me. The repetition and lack of notes of … Read more
