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School for scandal:
The larger meaning of the sordid little tale
By Laura Kipnis
Discussed in this essay:
On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art, by Ari Adut. Cambridge University Press. 356 pages. $28.
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America, by Susan Wise Bauer. Princeton University Press. 337 pages. $26.95.
Laura Kipnis’s next book, How to Become a Scandal, will be published by Metropolitan.
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