Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

Leah Mandel is a writer in New York. Her work has appeared in Real Life, Majuscule, Creem, The Wall Street Journal, VICE, and NYLON, among other publications.

Leah Mandel

The Thoughts That Almost Killed Us: On Emmeline Clein’s “Dead Weight”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Leah Mandel is a writer in New York. Her work has appeared in Real Life, Majuscule, Creem, The Wall Street Journal, VICE, and NYLON, among other publications.

Leah Mandel

Articles

The Thoughts That Almost Killed Us: On Emmeline Clein’s “Dead Weight”