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Emily Cooke

is a contributing editor of the New Inquiry and a senior editor of Harper's Magazine.

Essays & Reviews

The Semiautobiographers

By Emily CookeNovember 8, 2012
A phalanx of recent books by women are refusing old-fashioned plot structures and paying special attention to the unruly sexual lives of their characters. Is this the way to liberation?
Essays & Reviews

The Lonely Ones

By Emily CookeMay 17, 2012
By all accounts, Susan Sontag found being alone intolerable. Solitude is a problem for writers generally, and men are often worse at being alone than women.
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