When Joyce Maynard published her memoir At Home in the World, about when, 25 years earlier, she dropped out of Yale to go live with the 53-year-old author (and got abruptly dumped seven months later), she endured a wave of criticism for kissing-and-telling that to this day hasn’t entirely abated. Here she writes, “Though I believe that if the book I wrote 20 years ago were published today it would be received differently, it does not appear that enlightenment concerning the abuses of men in power extends retroactively to women who chose to speak long ago, and were shamed and humiliated for doing so.”