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[...] Tom was a strange hybrid feminist, behaviorally beyond reproach but conceptually hostile. [...] she was a hybrid the other way around: conceptually a feminist but one of those women whose primary relationships had always been with men, and who had benefited professionally, all her life, fro…

"[...] Shining his pure light on a world full of corruption. Lecturing other men on their sexism. It's like he wants there to be a world full of women and only one man who understands them. I know that kind of guy. They give me the creeps."

[...] the false promise of the Internet and social media as substitutes for journalism--the idea that you didn't need Washington journalists when you could read the tweets of congressmen, didn't need news photographers when everyone carried a, phone with a camera, didn't need to pay professionals w…

[...] Although that time was long gone, they'd never formally acknowledged its passing--so much remained unspoken behind the glare on Tom's glasses--and Leila couldn't help feeling hurt that he'd unilaterally acknowledged it by inviting the girl to live with him.

[...] Charles' big book had been published just the week before and was getting slaughtered by reviewers ("bloated and immensely disagreeable" Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) [...]