For her witty and clear-eyed writing on popular culture and literature, Sophie Gilbert has been named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. A employees author at The Atlantic since 2016, Gilbert has explored gender norms, feminism, magnificence tradition, motherhood, and extra with ethical readability and an inimitable voice. Revisiting Game of Thrones 10 years after it debuted, she argued that the present’s portrayals of sexual violence nonetheless affect the small display. Rape on TV, she wrote, remains to be “the Klaxon for supposed narrative fearlessness, the device that humanizes ‘difficult’ women and adds supposed texture to vulnerable ones.” And about Season 3 of Succession, she famous, memorably: “The marriage between Shiv Roy and Tom Wambsgans is, at this point, built on mutual ambition and cold white wine, and the wine at least has turned poisonously sour.” Read extra of Gilbert’s work:
Marilyn Manson Told Us What He Was
A brand new HBO documentary portrays the actor Evan Rachel Wood’s makes an attempt to get justice for alleged abuse.
March 2022
Curse of the ’90s Bombshell
In a brand new miniseries, the Pamela Anderson–Tommy Lee intercourse tape isn’t only a tabloid frenzy. It’s a second that really modified the world.
February 2022
The Redemption of the Bad Mother
Two current works problem the long-standing pact of American motherhood: We give moms nothing and count on the whole lot in return.
January 2022
The Problem With Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body
The mannequin and actor’s new ebook of essays is a fascinatingly solipsistic portrait of the strain between empowerment and objectification.
November 2021
The Tragedy of Tom and Shiv
The solely actual relationship on Succession is a wedding fully corrupted by the household enterprise.
November 2021
The Dark Side of Fitness Culture
The Apple TV+ collection Physical is a reminder that making folks hate their physique is a thriving pillar of American commerce.
June 2021
What the Sexual Violence of Game of Thrones Begot
Ten years after the hit collection debuted, tv’s reliance on rape tradition nonetheless feels exploitative.
May 2021
The Literary-Abuser Trope Is Everywhere
A spate of current works—some memoiristic, some fictional—factors to how uniquely lecturers and mentors can manipulate their energy.
May 2021
The Unending Assaults on Girlhood
Rape tradition permeates adolescence. The classes that it teaches women forged lengthy shadows.
March 2021
Becoming a Parent During the Pandemic Was the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done
This utterly completely different particular person I’ve change into since I gave delivery is somebody just about nobody is aware of.
March 2021
How to Tell the Story of a Cult
Two docuseries about NXIVM current a query: Are the individuals who have escaped a controlling group probably the most dependable sources on what occurred to them?
November 2020