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. 

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Revisiting Penelope Mortimer’s The Pumpkin Eater.
Daphne Merkin
April 06, 2011 8:17 AM
What to watch during the writers’ strike? Californication.
Daphne Merkin
Nov 21, 2007 4:56 PM
The letters of Jessica Mitford.
Daphne Merkin
Feb 02, 2007 7:10 AM
What Makes a Genuine Subversive?
Daphne Merkin
Dec 08, 2006 3:56 PM
Bratty Beauties and Babyish Boys
Daphne Merkin
Dec 07, 2006 11:56 AM
The Commotion About Gender Roles
Daphne Merkin
Dec 06, 2006 1:38 PM
When polygamy goes wrong.
Daphne Merkin
March 10, 2006 10:57 AM
Does Capote get the writer right?
Daphne Merkin
Oct 06, 2005 3:47 PM
Does Capote get the writer right?
Daphne Merkin
Oct 06, 2005 3:47 PM
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
April 17, 1998 3:30 AM