"The real value, the biggest value, of sport to me is that it is this gigantic arena for feeling."
Tara K. Menon
Tara K. Menon is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and will begin as an assistant professor in the department of English at Harvard University in the fall of 2021. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, Sewanee Review, Bookforum, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel. 
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 ...