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Hillary Kelly

Hillary Kelly is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

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February 11, 2013
Hillary Kelly
A Failure of Imagination
Why Bookish and other recommendation engines fall short
December 18, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Hands On—Does Handwriting Matter?
December 6, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Martha Stewart: Original Hipster
November 16, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Green Piece—Barbara Kingsolver’s Eco Obsessions
November 15, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Philip Roth's Empty Threat: "Burn My Papers"
October 1, 2012
Hillary Kelly
The Five Types of Amazon Critic
September 4, 2012
Hillary Kelly
The Good Reader
November 30, 2011
Hillary Kelly
The Voyage In
September 9, 2011
Hillary Kelly
Hey Adults! Stop Using a 15-Year-Old Fashion Blogger to Feed Your Own Nostalgia
June 21, 2011
Hillary Kelly
The Thinking Person’s Summer Reading List
May 25, 2011
Hillary Kelly
We Don’t Need Oprah’s Book Club
March 30, 2011
Hillary Kelly
Praise the Heavy Lift
March 22, 2011
Chloe Schama, Hillary Kelly
Failure to Adapt
January 10, 2011
Hillary Kelly
Whitewashing
December 21, 2010
Hillary Kelly
The Missing Subject
December 14, 2010
Hillary Kelly
Bad Expectations
Oprah’s misguided view of Charles Dickens—and literature as a whole.
September 23, 2010
Hillary Kelly
The Complete Christine O'Donnell
August 18, 2010
Hillary Kelly
Dangling Man
May 28, 2010
Hillary Kelly
Keeping Austen Weird
April 1, 2010
Hillary Kelly
Patrick White Interview, 1973

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