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Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at The 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 of On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice, and the forthcoming Girl on Girl, an analysis of 21st-century popular culture's influence on women. Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, she was the arts editor at Washingtonian.
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