Feminism

2023
The Deadline: Essays
Lepore, Jill. 2023. The Deadline: Essays. New York: W.W. Norton. Publisher's Version Abstract
A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.
 

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore’s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay—and of history—itself.

2022
Lepore, Jill. 2022. “Why There Are No Women in the Constitution.” The New Yorker, May 4, 2022. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2022. “The Morning After.” The New Yorker, May 25, 2022. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2022. “The Supreme Court's Selective Memory.” The New Yorker, June 24, 2022. Article
2020
Lepore, Jill. 2020. “How "America the Beautiful" Was Born.” National Geographic, November 3, 2020. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2020. “From Sea to Shining Sea.” America the Beautiful: A Story in Photographs, 17-21. Washington, DC: National Geographic. Book
Lepore, Jill. 2020. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Great Equalizer.” newyorker.com, September 18, 2020. Article
2019
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “Ahab at Home: Two hundred years of Herman Melville.” The New Yorker, July 29, 2019. Article
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2018
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “Misjudged: How Justice Ginsburg overcame the distrust of feminists.” The New Yorker, October 8, 2018. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “It's Alive: Two hundred years of Frankenstein.” The New Yorker, February 12, 2018. Article
Bibliography
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “Valley of the Dolls: Barbie, Bratz, and the end of originality.” The New Yorker, 1/22/18.
2017
Roosevelt, Eleanor. 2017. “Introduction.” It's Up to the Women. New York: The Nation Books. Book
2016
Lepore, Jill. 2016. “Esme in Neverland: The film J.D. Salinger nearly made.” The New Yorker. Article
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Lepore, Jill. 2016. “The Sovereignty of Women.” The New Yorker. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2016. “Baby Doe: A political history of tragedy.” The New Yorker, 1 Feb 2016. Article
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Lepore, Jill. 2016. “Review of The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe.” The New York Times Book Review. Article
2015
Lepore, Jill. 2015. “To Have and to Hold: Reproduction, Marriage, and the Constitution.” The New Yorker, May 25, 2015. Article
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2014
Colbert, Stephen. 2014. “Interview with Jill Lepore.” The Colbert Report, October 29, 2014. Video

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