in The Guardian says, "Ultimately Faludi is guilty of her own exaggerations and mythmaking, strong-arming her argument into submission." On the other hand, Kirkus Reviews claimed that the book was a "rich, incisive analysis of the surreality of American life in the wake of 9/11" and that it was "brilliant, illuminating and essential." Reviewing the book for Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan praised Faludi for her "characteristic restraint and depth of research" and for her "rigorous insistence on truth". In the Darkroom Faludi's most recent book, published in 2016, is In the Darkroom with Henry Holt & Co; it is about the "fluidity and binaries" of "modern transsexuality", inspired by Faludi's father coming out as a transgender woman. Writing in The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg called Faludi's book a "rich, arresting and ultimately generous investigation of her father." Writing in The Guardian, Rachel Cooke described the book as "an elegant masterpiece" and "a searching investigation of identity barely disguised as a sometimes funny and sometimes very painful family saga." In the Darkroom won the 2016 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. The book has been translated into multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Turkish, Dutch, and Chinese. Faludi and feminism Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a "rigid, monolithic feminist 'orthodoxy,'" noting in response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion. Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, "There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful." She has also characterized "academic feminism's love affair with deconstructionism" as "toothless", and warned that it "distract[s] from constructive engagement with the problems of the public world". Bibliography Books Essays and reporting Faludi, Susan, "Feminism Made a Faustian Bargain With Celebrity Culture. Now It’s Paying the Price." New York Times. June 20, 2022. Faludi, Susan, (October 2010) "American Electra: Feminism's Ritual Matricide" Harper's: 29–42. See also Third-wave feminism Jewish feminism References External links Interview with Phillip Adams on April 14, 2008 Video - Susan Faludi at Politics and Prose, "In the Darkroom" 1959 births Living people 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century