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    Modern Feminism’s Big Lie: On ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’

    by Anna Sims Feb 13, 2020 5 minutes

    In her debut novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, New York Times Magazine staff writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner has done something astounding. The astounding thing isn’t that she’s written a book that’s garnered praise in both commercial and literary circles. Although yes, Fleishman Is in Trouble is a true commercial success, a witty New York Times bestseller that’s going to become a limited series on FX. And yes, it’s a literary-world darling, too, making the longlist for the 2019 National Book Award.

    The remarkable thing Brodesser-Akner has done is to write a book that offers a sharp critique of the lie fueling modern feminism and is brilliantly disguised as a book about a man.

    That man is Toby Fleishman, a 40-something liver doctor going through a divorce from Rachel. Rachel, we learn, is

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