Before her death in 2001, Naomi Schor was a leading scholar in feminist and critical theory and a founding coeditor of differences A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. This issue takes as its starting point Schor s book Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (1995), in which she discussed her attraction to the bad objects the academy had overlooked or ignored: universalism, essentialism, and feminism. Underpinning these bad objects was her mourning of the literary, a sense that her work and feminist theory more generally had departed from the textual readings in...