Beauty as character

In an elegant and bracing piece for the New Yorker, recent Rumpus interviewee Adelle Waldman looks at the way men look at women. Beauty isn’t an ornament, either for the women who possess it or the best chroniclers of it. In the novels she discusses, beauty is a character in its own right, and a sinister and foreboding one at that.

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Lindsay Meisel is the director of communications at Edupath, an educational technology company in Berkeley, California. She has picked spinach at sunrise on an organic farm, written about Nietzsche and environmentalism for the Breakthrough Institute, and saved things instead of selling them at Underground Advertising.

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