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The Roth Biography Scandal Philip Roth: The Biography—the key issue being, Was Roth a misogynist?—when both book and biographer spilled over from the review pages to Page One. “Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of his Book,” the New York Times announced in April. Several women accused Bailey of predatory behavior. At a Louisiana private school where he had once taught English, he was said to have “groomed” eighth-graders for later of-age seductions to rape. And a woman said that Bailey had raped her at the home of a mutual friend who—in one of the sca...

The focus of the uproar is a video about a Latina intelligence officer, who declares: “I am a cisgender millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. “I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” she says, in the voiceover to a film of her walking confidently through the CIA’s Langley headquarters with a T-shirt emblazoned with a clenched fist motif. “I used to struggle with impostor syndrome, but at 36 I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be,” she adds. The terminology...

Subject: The Review: The Nightmare of History "Is this a plea for historians to be granted some of the moral authority of the traumatized, of the survivor?" That's Michael Roth, a historian and president of Wesleyan University, commenting on "Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?," an article recently published in The New Republic. Based on that headline, I was initially sympathetic to Roth's skepticism. But the article, by James Robins, moved me. It begins with the story of Iris Chang, the historian whose book The Rape of Nanking (1997) Robins credits with "resurrecting for a new gene...

The difference in Western governments’ reaction to the two episodes suggests a misplaced focus on electoral procedures.

Susan Taubes’s only novel was panned when it was published in 1969. Deborah Levy re-examines the witty story of one woman’s epic quest for freedom