In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity: from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era.
Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
Philippa Snow’s essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Artforum, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, the White Review, Vogue, the New Statesman, the TLS, and the New Republic. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and is the author of Which As You Know Means Violence (Repeater Books, 2022) and Trophy Lives (Mack, 2024).
On Femininity and Fame will launch at Claire de Rouen Books on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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