Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer atThe Atlantic. She won the 2024 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism and was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. She is the author ofGirl on Girl, an analysis of 21st-century popular culture's influence on women, and ofOn Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice. Before joiningThe Atlantic in 2014, she was the arts editor atWashingtonian.
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