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An anecdote: her first book, the magisterial Sexual Personae (1990), came out when I was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. I immediately recognized it as the most consequential new work of criticism in years; but when I tried to convince my fellow directors that it deserved an award, several of them took turns opening the giant tome to this or that page, reading a politically incorrect (but incisive) sentence aloud, and then sputtering in outrage that “we can't give an award to a book with that in it!” Which tells you all you need to know about awards.