Laura KipnisLaura Kipnis is a cultural critic and a professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking. She's the author of six previous books, including Against Love: A Polemic and Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. Se has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Yaddo, among others, and has written for Slate, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. Her essay "Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe" was included in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. She lives in New York and Chicago. Read More Read Less