![]() ![]() Which is not to trivialise: Waldman defends dating as a human, and by extension literary concern, through the character of Aurit, whom Nate thinks of as "one of the smartest women – people" he knows. The book's title has the whiff of its protagonist's private affectation: it might more honestly be called "Nate's dates". Nate is a young Brooklynite with a first novel in the publishing pipeline, a development that boosts his social and sexual status but doesn't do much for his soul. ![]() Nate Piven – the exasperating centre of Adelle Waldman's deft first novel – is that theoretical man-child made literary archetype. The culprit: the Man-Child, the kind of self-regarding guy who "doesn't want to seem like an asshole", whose sexism is "ironic". Moira Weigel and Mal Ahern's "Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child" is an excoriation of the "forms of crypto- and not-so-crypto misogyny" that have contaminated the supposedly enlightened worlds of publishing and humanities departments. ![]() T his summer, an essay published by the New Inquiry wildfired through Twitter. ![]()
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