Tara K. Menon co-edits the Literary Fiction section of Public Books. She is an assistant professor in the department of English at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, Sewanee Review, Bookforum, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel.
Tara K. Menon
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“Winning Is Not Uncomplicated”: Louisa Thomas on Sports
“The real value, the biggest value, of sport to me is that it is this gigantic arena for feeling.”[none-for-homepage]
What Women Want
#MeToo has revived an enduring feminist question: What do women want, and how can they get it?
Ondaatje’s Long War
In a scathing review of The English Patient, Hilary Mantel called Michael Ondaatje’s most feted work “uneven, unresolved, unsatisfactory.” Her criticism has since become a regular complaint about the …
The Indispensable Anger of Arundhati Roy
Angry novels are divisive. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy’s hyperanticipated and indignant return to fiction, has accordingly delighted and …
Of Men, Monsters, and “The Fall”
Misogynistic torture porn? Or the most feminist show on television? The jury is divided on The Fall, Allan Cubitt’s take on the now prevalent female-detective-hunts-serial-killer drama. Critics condemn its camera’s fixation with beautiful female bodies, from the protracted pornographic shots of naked victims to the voyeuristic return to the top button of Detective Superintendent Stella […]
