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.

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 ...

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 ...

By Jessa Crispin Melville House, 151 pages, $22 Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism By Camille Paglia Pantheon, 315 pages, $35.95 The Mother of All Questions By Rebecca Solnit ...

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 ...

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 ...

JESSA CRISPIN: Well, when I started the blog it was sort of like a way to kill time. I wasn’t taking it very seriously and so, until it turned into basically my day job as this ridiculous fantasy.

Jessa Crispin. Nic Walker And despite the book's slightly solipsistic tone ("As a feminist I am angry with feminists because their feminism is not feminist enough for me"), I can see her point.

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 ...

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 ...