a critic at large ·
Joan Acocella on Scott Herring’s “The Hoarders,” a history of hoarding from Grey Gardens to the DSM-V.
Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1995 until her death, in 2024.
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books ·
The Potter story is a fairy tale, plus a bildungsroman, plus a murder mystery, plus a cosmic war of good and evil, Joan Acocella wrote.
profiles ·
Joan Acocella’s Profile of the dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, after defecting from the Soviet Union, became one of the most famous names in ballet in the twentieth century.
life and letters ·
Joan Acocella on The New Yorker’s former book critic, and the gift for fiction that she nursed under the cover of her acerbic wit.