Dead Girls

“[A] deliciously dry, moody essay collection” about America’s obsession with violence against women is “a lyrical meditation” (Carina Chocano, New York Times Book Review).

In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, ...