Culture Check

Naomi Wolf has a blistering critique of what has become a highly successful and outrageously immoral genre of books for adolescent girls:

The great reads of adolescence have classically been critiques of the corrupt or banal adult world. It's sad if the point of reading for many girls now is no longer to take the adult world apart but to squeeze into it all the more compliantly. Sex and shopping take their places on a barren stage, as though, even for teenagers, these are the only dramas left.

Rob