Rhian Sasseen

Does female sexuality exist? If we understand “female sexuality” to be something belonging to women, a bodily and mental expression and experience of desire, selfhood, and pleasure not dependent on a patriarchal conception of what is called “femininity”—then no, no, it ...

Not too long ago, I was an unpaid intern. For English majors, this is not particularly unusual, the depressing 2013 realization of what Jim Frederick predicted in his 1997 Baffler essay “Internment Camp.” We have reached the point at which a flurry of lawsuits are necessary ...

What went wrong with the American Left? In Dissident Gardens, his latest novel, Jonathan Lethem tries to figure it out. Billed as an “epic yet intimate family saga,” it tries to turn the current apolitical vogue of American family fiction against itself – but never quite ...

“When negotiating,” Sheryl Sandberg writes of the male-female corporate income divide in her bestselling book Lean In, “Think personally, act communally.” Write that down, young lady. When navigating the land of the unpaid internship, however, women ...