NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with critic Claire Dederer. She's expanded her 2017 essay "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men" in a new book about the perils - and joys - of fandom. Is it OK to ...

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Thirty-something new mom Claire Dederer wanted to get right everything her mother got wrong. Her mom, she thought, was a messy child of 1970’s women’s liberation – leaving her father for a love ...

Hatha Yoga means the union of opposites, and Claire Dederer had a lot of opposites to forge back into a whole. In her twenties, she hopscotched around the world, driving a forklift in Australia, ...

We don’t seem to know any longer what criticism is for. The Internet has altered the ecosystem of opinion, lowering barriers to entry and rewarding the personal and the spontaneous over the putatively ...

Great art penetrates, for better or worse. It gets “inside” and lingers there; it excites emotions, makes you feel elated, vulnerable, mortal. If great art penetrates, does aesthetic experience entail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claire Dederer, author of "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma," at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last weekend. (Myung J. Chun/Los ...

The cultural critic's latest book, 'Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma', explores the audience’s relationship to the work of Roman Polanksi, Woody Allen, and more. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor “It looked like ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. In Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, critic and ...

Last month, I gave a talk at a conference in honor of the late writer Norman Mailer. When I mentioned this conference in class to my Georgetown students, a couple of them blurted out, "But, he stabbed ...

Dave Dederer, from The Presidents of the United States of America, plays at last year’s Geekwire Summit. Photo: Karen Ducey. Nope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton aren’t joining Amazon.com. But the fast ...

Why did Claire Dederer take up yoga? Short answer: for the same kinds of reasons that Elizabeth Gilbert changed her life in “Eat, Pray, Love,” and to much the same funny, charming, self-deprecating, ...