Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another. — Michelle Dean Another Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness. — Michelle Dean About Copy Share Image
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it. — Michelle Dean Even Copy Share Image
Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss? — Michelle Dean Even Copy Share Image
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. — Michelle Dean Aggressive Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Language Copy Share Image
I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me… — Michelle Dean Book Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean About Copy Share Image
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays… — Michelle Dean Attention Copy Share Image
Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he… — Michelle Dean Around Copy Share Image
There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Books Copy Share Image
The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art. — Michelle Dean Art Copy Share Image
I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies… — Michelle Dean Alone Copy Share Image
When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review… — Michelle Dean America Copy Share Image
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people… — Michelle Dean Hands Copy Share Image
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version… — Michelle Dean American Copy Share Image
Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the… — Michelle Dean Cats Copy Share Image
The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact,… — Michelle Dean Always Copy Share Image
There has long been an argument in New York about what, exactly, the purpose of book awards ought to be. One model… — Michelle Dean Best Copy Share Image
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the… — Michelle Dean Art Copy Share Image
The children of the 1980s were the last before a lot of things changed. We were the last generation not to have… — Michelle Dean 1980s Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. — Michelle Dean Donald trump Copy Share Image
Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book. — Michelle Dean Attention Copy Share Image
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. — Michelle Dean Culture Copy Share Image
There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself. — Michelle Dean Center Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Books Copy Share Image
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. — Michelle Dean Early Copy Share Image
I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone… — Michelle Dean Argument Copy Share Image
There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits. — Michelle Dean Being Copy Share Image
Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of… — Michelle Dean Always Copy Share Image
People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem… — Michelle Dean Business Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than… — Michelle Dean People Copy Share Image
The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only… — Michelle Dean Consciousness Copy Share Image
Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs. — Michelle Dean Dime Copy Share Image
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. — Michelle Dean Alone Copy Share Image
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships. — Michelle Dean Female friendship Copy Share Image
A presidential candidate changing churches is hardly unusual. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rand Paul have all aligned themselves with different faiths… — Michelle Dean Candidate Copy Share Image
