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“... kind of scene we see in Girls too. The author of The Girls, Emma Cline, is the same generation as Lena Dunham, the creator of Girls, and reading The Girls, as when I have watched Girls, I felt pained by the theory of girlhood they propose. As Cline describes it: Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate ...”

“... Olm Proteus anguinus I live in a cave. Of course I’m immature. That’s how I can breathe underwater. I play the long game. You may never meet me. I can never be sure. I shine in the dark like a deep-sea fishing lure, an ambush predator’s dream, an eternal flame in a smoked-glass sleeve. Of course I’m immature. I can wait longer than you. I could even defer my next meal a decade, if drought or scarcity came ...”

“... what I like, and sometimes I don’t really know, ’cause I forgot right then what I like.’ Lena Dunham needs to inhabit a part; Roxane Gay looks at the clothes in her wardrobe, thinks she might wear something different for three minutes, then picks one of the ten outfits she wears all the time; Eufemia Fantetti wore trackpants for a year before ...”

“... When Lena Dunham​ became famous in 2012, at 26, for creating, writing, directing and acting in the HBO series Girls, one of the most commented-on aspects of her performance was the fact that she allowed her naked, normal form to be seen on screen. Her body became an argument about Millennial snowflakery, feminist critiques of porn culture and white privilege ...”

“... behaviour makes us eligible for the web-scorn of alt-right triumphalists (‘Anguished by Trump, Lena Dunham Flees to Posh Arizona Resort, Asks Rocks for “Guidance”’). At these moments we’re the special snowflakes we were wishing to see in the world, the canaries in our own dystopian coal mines. But we’ll brandish our sensitivities proudly (if ...”

“... would be memoir, or life-writing as universities now call it, or the ‘personal essays’ Lena Dunham has Hannah Horvath endlessly working on in Girls – that surely is a bit newer. In the old days, wasn’t it a novel that everybody wanted to write? Plenty of people have theories about this shift in fashion and, usually, they approach it as a ...”

“... climate, one that is so focused on issues of women’s consent, control and intersectionality,’ Lena Dunham wrote, appearing in the New York Times one day in her surprising yet completely predictable way. ‘But when all is said and done, Wolitzer is an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page, and her ...”

“... called the heir to Philip Roth, or to Joan Didion, and the literary equivalent of the filmmaker Lena Dunham or the songwriter Frank Ocean, who astonished the luridly heterosexual R’n’B scene last year by recording love songs addressed to his boyfriend. But what if she’d just prefer to be one of the characters in Made in Chelsea? Heti, who turned ...”

“... Lena Dunham’s Girls opens on its creator and star eating the way you don’t often see a woman eat on TV: brow furrowed, cheeks full, spaghetti cascading towards the plate, left hand free to catch any strands that might not quite fit in her mouth. Dunham’s character, 24-year-old Hannah Horvath, is having a meal in a restaurant with her parents, but there’s something of the break-up, or sacking, about the set-up ...”

“... its later reputation as a paean to brand shopping. Eight years after it ended, when HBO launched Lena Dunham’s Girls (2012-17), another sharp comedy about single, straight, middle-class white women in New York, Sex and the City no longer seemed authentic enough. Although it was based on columns by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City’s creator and its ...”