UGLINESS - NYTimes - Garelick

"A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely addressed . . . Hilal takes on our beauty-worshipping celebrity culture and the beauty industry for . . . keeping women in an expensive prison of self-doubt . . . Ugliness makes a 'big picture' argument, panning outward from one young woman’s life to some of the largest issues we confront globally—hence to all of our lives.”