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Hillary Kelly

Hillary Kelly is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

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January 4, 2023
Hillary Kelly
Shirley Hazzard’s Great Escape
A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.
November 13, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Hachette Blew Its Chance to Make Amazon Truly Pay for Its Bad Practices
November 6, 2014
Hillary Kelly
"I Think Spinster Is An Identity Every Woman Can Claim"
Talking with the author of 'Texts from Jane Eyre'
October 31, 2014
Hillary Kelly, Chloe Schama
The 20 Most Terrifying Non-Horror Books You'll Ever Read
October 30, 2014
Ryan Kearney, Hillary Kelly
Which Is Scarier, Clowns or Zombies? A Debate to the Death.
October 28, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Michel Faber Wrote This Heartbreaking Book While His Wife Was Dying. Now He Says It's His Last.
October 27, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Let's Bring Back Mourning Clothes
October 24, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Award for Dumbest Tweet About the NYC Ebola Case Goes to Someone Very Close to Ted Cruz
October 16, 2014
Esther Breger, Hillary Kelly
Is the Media Obsession With Celebrity Penises the Final Wave of Feminism?
October 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
5 Steps to Getting Over Your Ignorance of the Nobel Winner for Literature
August 11, 2014
Hillary Kelly
We're Bringing You 100 Notable Stories from our Archives
August 5, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Don't Say You're From the City If You're Really From the 'Burbs
It's untrue. It's annoying. And it completely kills the conversation.
July 30, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Most Iconic, Important Penguin Paperback Covers of All Time
July 25, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Original Manuscripts of Two of the World's Most Famous Poems
July 23, 2014
Hillary Kelly
This Conversation Between Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming Was Recorded the Last Time The Two Friends Ever Met
July 22, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Article That Told the World About the Holocaust
Varian Fry's landmark report, "The Massacre of the Jews"
July 18, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen
What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?
July 16, 2014
Hillary Kelly
63 Years Ago, We Knew That 'The Catcher in the Rye' Was Insufferable and Overrated
July 14, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Edith Wharton's Steamy, Sexy, Hot-Weather Novella
This novel was the '50 Shades of Gray' of 1916.
July 1, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Most Moving, Enlightening Novels About World War I

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