SHARP - the key

Okay here is the long-overdue (according to people who are writing in to me) key to the superb women on the cover of SHARP, by Michelle Dean. I'm so glad you all like it enough to write!

L to R (not counting spine): Janet Malcolm, Mary McCarthy, Rebecca West, Pauline Kael, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, Joan Didion, Dorothy Parker