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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and was one of the team of book critics at The New York Times. As of December 2021, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker, a position she was first reported to have taken in July 2021. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.
When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.
When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.