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Sophie Gilbert

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Sep 10, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
Top 10K sites
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Aug 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Sophie Gilbert

    Jackie Collins Wrote Her Own Revolution (opens the original)

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    Once, when I was 15 years old and as awkward and skinny-legged as a baby giraffe, I was idling in a department store in central London when I saw the novelist Jackie Collins standing at the register. Can you imagine the aura emanating from her, like Hermès-scented magnetic waves? She was wearing animal print and a tailored jacket and had the kind of steely composure I’ve never managed to pull off in adulthood without straining something. Faced with one of my true idols, all I could do was gawk.

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Sophie Gilbert

    Gloria Steinem’s Feminism for All (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Throughout most of Gloria Steinem’s life, two versions of her existed. Publicly, Steinem was a figurehead: the glamorous co-founder of Ms. magazine, a totem for second-wave feminism and a bull’s-eye for its detractors, gorgeously inscrutable behind her curtains of streaked hair and tinted glasses. Privately, she was a workhorse: someone who hid behind her accessories, felt she’d come to the women’s movement

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Sophie Gilbert

    Portrait of the Artist as a Movie Star (opens the original)

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    A few months ago, I traveled to a new city in a foreign country to talk about a book I’d written. At lunch one day, my host told me about a publishing acquaintance of hers who’d hosted the writer Rachel Cusk some years back, only to find herself seemingly replicated later, in cartoonish and (she felt) unflattering form, within one of the books in Cusk’s Outline trilogy. The woman was apparently devastated; although Cusk had withheld some details, the portrait, according to its presumptive subjec

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Sophie Gilbert

    A Time for Female Monsters (opens the original)

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    Most dramas about murderous women save the revelations of deviance for the end, after parceling out uncertainty and complication. Furious does things exactly backwards. Here is a monster, the Hulu series announces with its very first scene, during which an unblinking blonde in a Halloween cat mask kills a man by forcibly injecting him with fentanyl, which she keeps in a bedazzled silver tin. “I don’t really like listening to you,” she whispers, as he gasps for breath. “I don’t like the sounds yo

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Sophie Gilbert

    The Internet Is in Crisis (opens the original)

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    Almost 20 years ago, I had tickets to see Amy Winehouse perform in London, at a show that was canceled just an hour before it was scheduled to start. A friend and I went to a nearby hotel bar instead, and not much later, in walked Winehouse herself—tiny, grubby, and completely incoherent. She walked over to us and stared, her eyes both furious and vacant, until someone in her entourage came and dragged her away. I remember the person who flashed to mind in that bizarre moment: the gossip blogger

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