Maggie Doherty

Maggie Doherty is a lecturer at Harvard. Her writing has appeared in the New Republic, Dissent, and n+1. The Equivalents, her first book, will be published by Knopf.

September 27, 2018

Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free

In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.

Maggie Doherty
December 28, 2017

Mary McCarthy’s Unsparing Honesty

For McCarthy, accuracy was more than just a literary aesthetic; it was a moral and political position.

Maggie Doherty
June 27, 2017

Grace Paley’s Crowded World

In her life, as in her writing, the boundaries between the personal and the political were remarkably porous.

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Maggie Doherty

September 27, 2018

In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.

December 28, 2017

For McCarthy, accuracy was more than just a literary aesthetic; it was a moral and political position.

June 27, 2017

In her life, as in her writing, the boundaries between the personal and the political were remarkably porous.