Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani reveals the dirty underside of bourgeois domesticity. Is her taboo breaking worthy of praise?

Annabel L. Kim
Annabel L. Kim is associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University. A specialist of 20th- and 21st-century French literature, Kim is the author of Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (Ohio State University Press, 2018).