HeyJaredCLEAVAGE with Jenny Boylan
Author of 19 books, including MAD HONEY (with Jodi Picoult) and SHE'S NOT THERE. Prof at Barnard/Columbia. 2022-23 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. Writer, New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post. President, PEN America.
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To Mock A Trumpingbird (opens the original)
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News item: The producers of the proposed Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” are being sued by the Harper Lee estate. A chief dispute is the updated portrayal of Atticus Finch, who in the first act is presented as a confused, elderly racist. Scene 1: Atticus, Scout, and Jem are sitting on the front porch. Atticus wears a hat that says, “Make Maycomb Great Again.” Scou
Turn and Face the Strange (opens the original)
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Ovid, in “The Metamorphoses,” tells us that none of us are only one thing. Our lives are a series of changes, passages in which we are going from one way of being in the world to another. So why is it that change is the thing that we most desire, as well as the thing we most fear?At Barnard College, for many years, I taught a course called “Metamorphosis and Desire.” In that class, my students read Ovid, as well as works by Kafka and Shakespeare and James Joyce. There were some goofy things on t
“People Like You Should Be Exterminated.” (opens the original)
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America: We Had a Good Run (opens the original)
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This piece originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 24, 2026.I graduated from high school in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, in Haverford, Pa. Now, right on schedule, the members of my class find ourselves hurtling toward our 50th high school reunion in this, the year America turns 250.“Let Freedom Ring,” was one of the slogans back then. Another one, proposed by Richard Nixon in 1971, had been, “Open Borders, Open Hearts, Open Minds.”There is no official slogan for the Semiqu
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