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Niela Orr on bell hooks and flipping the channel to a more capacious form of critique.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Daphne Palasi Andreades’s brash and talky novel is about a group of women who grew up together in an outer borough of New York City.

Writer and activist bell hooks, whose lowercase pseudonym belied her towering achievements as an architect of what came to be known as intersectional feminism, died today at age sixty-nine at her home in Berea, Kentucky. The news was announced by her niece, Ebony Motley. hooks, whose work addressed the systems of oppression spawned by the overlapping of race, class, sexuality, and gender, gained wide acclaim for Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), which explored the impact of racism and sexism on Black women in relation to the feminist and civil rights movements that had rece...

One cornerstone of bell hooks’s work was that patriarchal ideals harm both men and women.