Jessica Payne on Antiheroes, Gender, and the Rise of Female Pyschopaths in Fiction (opens in new tab)

Readers love a psychopathic antihero. Give them someone fascinating, morally complex, someone who, despite their possibly homicidal tendencies, is loveable. Maybe even a character who makes the reader feel seen in the darker moments of their own life. I am of course talking about Dexter, Joe Goldberg from You, Walter White from Breaking Bad, Patrick […]