Elaine Showalter

Articles by Elaine Showalter

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The first lady

  • 17 November 2003

Madam Secretary: a memoir Madeleine Albright Macmillan, 562pp, £20 ISBN 140503369X

They think it's all over

  • 12 August 2002

The tradition of lad-lit, from Kingsley to Martin Amis, reached fever pitch with the insecure, introspective anti-heroes of the 1990s. But has the genre come to an end, asks Elaine Showalter

Scratching the Bin Laden itch

  • 29 July 2002

Observations on mass hysteria

I love drag

  • 06 August 2001

Sexually Speaking: collected sex writings Gore Vidal (edited by Donald Weise) Cleis Press, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 1573441201

Building frocks

  • 19 March 2001

The distinction between art and fashion has become blurred. Now architects are moving into the game. Elaine Showalter shops around for an explanation

Virgin suicide

  • 02 October 2000

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, 521pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747549370

Novel of the week

  • 05 June 2000

In America Susan Sontag Cape, 387pp, £16.99 ISBN 022404091X

Stand by your man. Elaine Showalter on how Hillary Clinton has become a symbol of the professional woman's confused search for identity, at once reviled and praised for supporting her husband

  • 07 February 2000

Bill and Hillary Christopher Andersen Warner Books, 352pp £7.99 ISBN 0751530352

Bridging the gap

  • 27 September 1999

Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution Lisa Jardine Little, Brown, 444pp, £25 ISBN 0316647527

In the company of wolves. In Italy the heroine of "Rumpelstiltskin" eats seven plates of pasta; in China Cinderella has an ugly sister called Pock Face. A new study explores the universal appeal of fairy stories

  • 26 February 1999

The Classic Fairy Tales Maria Tatar (editor) Norton Critical Edition, 394pp, £6.95

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

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