In “What Is Wrong With Men,” critic Jessa Crispin explores the rise of misogyny in today’s culture through an unusual lens ...

Author Jessa Crispin explains how films Michael Douglas made in the 1980s and 1990s reflect the anxieties of those times.

A new book, ‘What Is Wrong with Men', analyses the figure of the liberal, tolerant and clueless American male as played by ...

Join us as we welcome Jessa Crispin, author, podcaster, and intrepid social critic who has written one of the most anticipated books of 2025, What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of ...

Jessa Crispin’s new book, “The Dead Ladies Project,” opens in the wake of a suicide threat. Two police officers stand in the author’s kitchen preparing to take her to the emergency room ...

According to Jessa Crispin, it is the most important question of our time, and the answer to it might be found in an unlikely place: the films of Michael Douglas.

Profile Name: Jessa Crispin Company: Bookslut.com, Chicago Age: 29 Hometown: Lincoln, Kans. Education: One year at Baker Univ., Baldwin City, Kans. How long in current job: 6 years ...

Jessa Crispin is 24 years old and a college dropout. She works by day as a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. She is smart, very smart, and nearly everything she says comes out in a skeptical half-drawl.

Jessa Crispin, founder of the literary review magazine Bookslut.com, is packing up and heading to Berlin in search of inspiration.Comparing her departure from Chicago to the end of a close ...

A little etymology can be helpful in approaching Jessa Crispin’s latest book, “Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.” The word “manifesto” arrived in English by way of Italian ...

Crispin spoke to Vulture about her decision to shut down the site, and as the headline — “Lit-Blog Pioneer Jessa Crispin Closes Bookslut, Does Not Bite Tongue” — promises, she does not ...

“Perhaps the suicidal impulse was correct,” Jessa Crispin muses at the start of her genre-defying memoir-travelogue. “But it wasn’t my physical life that needed to be destroyed, only what ...