A highly anticipated book about young women and consumer culture offers little besides vapid hand-wringing.
There is a sentence on page 18 of GIRLS® around which nearly the entire book is structured. “I am not an expert or an academic,” Freya India writes. “I am a woman in her twenties.” She adds that there aren’t many topics she can write about with confidence, but she has spent three years reporting on this one: on her own Substack, as a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s After Babel newsletter.
Katherine Dee is the pen name of a Chicago-based writer. Her work can be found in UnHerd, Tablet, The Spectator, The Critic, and at her blog, default.blog.
