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Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler. She lives in New York City and is at work on a memoir, Melancholy Baby. 

Articles By Daphne Merkin

  • Home Discomforts

    Revisiting Penelope Mortimer's The Pumpkin Eater and its devastating portrait of a marriage.

    Daphne Merkin | DOUBLEX | Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 8:17 AM

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  • David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me?

    Or, reasons to watch Californication during the writers' strike.

    Daphne Merkin | TELEVISION | Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007, at 4:56 PM

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  • Black Sheep

    The letters of Jessica Mitford.

    Daphne Merkin | BOOKS | Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, at 7:26 AM

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  • The Female Thing

    Daphne Merkin | THE BOOK CLUB | Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at 3:56 PM

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  • The Female Thing

    Daphne Merkin | THE BOOK CLUB | Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, at 11:56 AM

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  • The Female Thing

    Daphne Merkin | THE BOOK CLUB | Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, at 1:38 PM

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  • Boy Meets Girl, Then More Girls

    HBO's Big Love and the stuffy side of polygamy.

    Daphne Merkin | CULTUREBOX | Friday, March 10, 2006, at 10:59 AM

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  • In Warm Blood

    What the film got right about Truman Capote.

    Daphne Merkin | CULTUREBOX | Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005, at 3:47 PM

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  • In Warm Blood

    What the film got right about Truman Capote.

    Daphne Merkin | CULTUREBOX | Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005, at 3:51 PM

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  • Dissecting the Day's News

    Judith Shulevitz, Katha Pollitt, Andrew Sullivan, Arianna S. Huffington, Harry Shearer, Malcolm Gladwell, Wendy Kaminer, David Brooks, Susan Estrich, Nell Minow, David Edelstein, Ruth Conniff, David Frum, Lucianne Goldberg, Erik Tarloff, Margo Howard, Alex Beam, Herbert Stein, Nadine Strossen, Alex Kozinski, Susan Estrich, Stuart Taylor Jr., Daniel Akst, Lisa DePaulo, Alan Brinkley, Sarah Lyall, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Stephen Graham, Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, Christopher Caldwell, Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom, Julie Lasky, Maud Lavin, Sally Quinn, Eric Tarloff, Jeffrey Goldberg, Susan Orlean, E.J. Dionne, Amity Shlaes, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Cullen Murphy, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Michael Hirschorn, Mim Udovitch, Peter Pringle, Gideon Rose, Charles Paul Freund, Kim Masters, Sarah Kerr, Edward Rothstein, Atul Gawande, Marjorie Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz, Paul Krugman, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Willis, Mary Kaldor, Clive Crook, Anne Applebaum, James Gibney, Steven Brill, Margaret Carlson, Cathy Young, Neal Dolan, Katha Pollitt, Sam Tanenhaus, David Carr, Jill Stewart, Robert Christgau, Danyel Smith, Lisa Zeidner, John Allen Paulos, Christopher Benfey, Elaine Showalter, Christopher Caldwell, Daphne Merkin, and Jodie T. Allen | THE BREAKFAST TABLE | Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:06 AM

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