It’s different for ‘Girls’, Emily Nussbaum, New York Magazine, 25 March 2012
Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ and the rise of the female slacker, Lindy West, Jezebel, 27 March 2012
Unwatchable in the best way, Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 27 March 2012
The bleaker sex, Frank Bruni, New York Times, 31 March 2012
Naked in New York, Frank Bruni, New York Times, 31 March 2012
‘Girls’ talk, Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 April 2012
The unbearable lightness of ‘Girls’, Liel Leibovitz, 6 April 2012
To be young and cosseted, Irin Carmon, Salon, 9 April 2012
Why is the sex on HBO’s Girls Such a Drag?, Katie Roiphe, Slate, 9 April 2012
The awkward honestly of ‘Girls’, Erica Lies, Splitsider, 10 April 2012
Why I’m deeply skeptical of HBO’s super-hyped show ‘Girls’, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet, 11 April 2012
“Girls”: What the hell was HBO thinking?, Asawin Suebsaeng, Mother Jones, 11 April 2012
True, new female friendship, Rebecca Traister, Salon, 11 April 2012
‘Girls’ lives up to the hype, Willa Paskin, Salon, 12 April 2012
The radical message of ‘Girls’, Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times, 12 April 2012
Getting it right while doing it wrong, Richard Lawson, The Atlantic, 12 April 2012
Is HBO’s ‘Girls’ the voice of our generation?, Nona Willis Aronowitz, GOOD, 12 April 2012
The New York observers, Troy Patterson, Slate, 13 April 2012
Misreading Lena Dunham, Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 April 2012
(April 15 is when the show first aired)
Where (my) girls at?, Jenna Wortham, The Hairpin, 16 April 2012
Girl riot, James Poniewozik, Time, 16 April 2012
Small girl big mouth, John Cook, Gawker, 16 April 2012
Does HBO have a problem with girls?, Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly, 16 April 2012
‘Girls’ writer responds to critique of ‘Girls’ with horrible joke, Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic Wire, 16 April 2012
The other ‘Girls’ and diversity goals for pop culture, Alyssa Rosenberg, Think Progress, 18 April 2012
Dear Lena Dunham: I exist, Kendra James, Racialicious, 19 April 2012
Why we need to keep talking about the white girls on Girls, Dodai Stewart, Jezebel, 19 April 2012
Let’s everyone just calm down, Kelly McClure, Vice, 20 April 2012
Girls through the veil, Ta-Nehisis Coates, The Atlantic, 20 April 2012
A Girls writer’s ironic racism and other ‘white people problems’, Max Read, Gawker, 20 April 2012
White “Girls”, Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 23 April 2012
Our ‘white people problems’ problem, Noel Murray, AV Club, 25 April 2012
Broadcasting a world of whiteness, Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 April 2012
A complete guide to hipster racism, Lindy West, Gawker, 26 April 2012
Hipster racism runoff and the search for the black Constanza, Cord Jefferson, Gawker, 27 April 2012
Reality hunger, Jane Hu, Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 April 2012
Anti-racism as social sorting, Freddie deBoer, L’Hôte, 28 April 2012
Talking about talking about race, Matt Langer, Tumblr, 1 May 2012
Lena Dunham, interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, 7 May
Straight white male: the lowest difficulty setting there is, John Scalzi, Kotaku, 17 May 2012
Free to be straight white males, Maria Bustillos & David Roth, The Awl, 25 May 2012
The Loves of Lena Dunham, Elaine Blair, New York Review of Books, 7 June 2012
How ‘Girls’ challenges the masculine expectations of “good TV”, Todd VanDerWerff, AV Club, 14 June 2012
From lightning rod to must-see TV, Matt Zoller Seitz, NY Magazine Vulture, 18 June 2012
Now that we’ve seen everything, Rich Juzwiak, Gawker, 19 June 2012
Am I rich enough?, John Cook, Gawker, 19 June 2012
‘Girls’ still racist, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, 22 June 2012
(Et qu’est-ce que l’on a appris ? I think it’s clear that a certain class of writers really doesn’t like being satirized, and that HBO was really good at co-opting their indignation to do its marketing.)
