Emily Nussbaum (born February 20, 1966) is an American television critic. She served as the television critic for ''
The New Yorker
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'' from 2011 until 2019. In 2016, she won the
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Early life
Nussbaum was born in the United States to mother Toby Nussbaum and
Bernard Nussbaum, who served as
White House Counsel
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to President
Bill Clinton
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Nussbaum was raised in
Scarsdale, New York
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, and graduated from
Oberlin College
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in 1988. She earned a master's degree in poetry from
New York University
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and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching.
Career
After living in
Providence, Rhode Island
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, and
Atlanta
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, Georgia, Nussbaum began writing reviews of TV shows following her infatuation with the series ''
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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'' and posting at the website
Television Without Pity. She began writing for ''
Lingua Franca
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'' and served as editor-in-chief of ''
Nerve
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''. She also wrote for ''
Slate
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'' and ''
The New York Times
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.''
Nussbaum then worked at ''
New York'' magazine, where she was the creator of the "Approval Matrix" feature and wrote about culture and television. She was at ''New York'' for seven years and was the culture editor.
In 2011, she became the television critic at ''
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
,'' taking over from Nancy Franklin. She won a
National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2014 and the
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016.
Personal life
Nussbaum is married to journalist
Clive Thompson. They have two children.
Awards
* 2014:
National Magazine Awards, Columns and Commentary. Honors political and social commentary; news analysis; and reviews and criticism
* 2016:
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Bibliography
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[Title in the online table of contents is "Robert Durst's new trial".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "David Letterman, revolutionary curmudgeon".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "The savory spectacle of 'Hannibal'".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "'Getting On' and Aziz Ansari’s 'Master of None'".]
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[On P. Jay Sidney][Online version is titled "One man’s crusade to integrate TV".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "This season's big dirty dramas".]
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[Online version is titled "The slapstick anarchists of 'Broad City'".]
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[Online version is titled "'Call the Midwife,' a primal procedural".]
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[Online version is titled "Empathy and 'Orange is the New Black'".]
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[Online version is titled "TV dramas of political paranoia".]
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[Online version is titled "The bleakness and joy of 'Bojack Horeseman'".]
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[Online version is titled "Fox News, a melodrama".]
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[Online version is titled "A millennial private eye on 'Search Party'".]
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[Online version is titled "'Feud' : a bittersweet beauty".]
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[Online version is titled "The disciplined power of 'American Crime'".]
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[Online version is titled "The glitzy verve of 'GLOW' and 'Claws'".]
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[Online version is titled "Celebrity delirium on 'The Masked Singer' and 'The Other Two'".]
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[Online version is titled "Middle-school mortification on 'PEN15'".]
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[Online version is titled "TV's reckoning with #MeToo".]
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1966 births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American television critics
Women television critics
American women journalists
American women non-fiction writers
Jewish American journalists
Jewish American non-fiction writers
Jewish women writers
The New Yorker critics
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners
Oberlin College alumni
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni
21st-century American Jews