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Dear Monica Lewinsky
Julia Langbein
★★★★★· Published 2026· 320 pages· read 2026
A woman reckons with an affair she had with a professor back during the Clinton-Lewinsky years, when he suddenly resurfaces in her life. Funny and pointed about power, men, and who we decide to blame.
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