Judith Thurman
Judith Thurman began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 2000. A second volume of her essays for the magazine, “ A Left-Handed Woman,” was published in 2022.
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profiles ·
The world of Alison Bechdel.
profiles ·
Marina Abramović’s performance art.
profiles ·
Judith Thurman on Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese avant-gardist who changed women’s fashion with her label, Comme des Garçons.
profiles ·
Teresa Heinz Kerry is an uncharted element on the road to the White House.
in fashion ·
A new show at the Costume Institute features outré outfits.
books ·
Judith Thurman reviews A. S. Byatt’s “Possession,” an epistolary novel about the romance of literary research.
a critic at large ·
Judith Thurman reads the many biographies of Charlotte Brontë and her family, from Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1857 book to Rebecca Fraser’s in 1988.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Nicaragua. Tells of the political conflict in the country which led, early in the present century, to U.S. Marines being sent in …
books ·
Judith Thurman reviews Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Beloved,” which takes place a few years after the Civil War and explores meanings of slavery, melodrama and maternal love.