Monica Lewinsky blows back: what's she trying to prove?

A message for Hillary Clinton about that affair - and a correction for Beyonce about that lyric

Monica Lewinsky
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HAS Monica Lewinsky got her claws out for Hillary Clinton? The 40-year-old who will be forever known as “the former White House intern” is breaking a silence more than ten years long with an essay under her own name in next month’s Vanity Fair.

The magazine posted a teaser this week, instantly generating headlines proving that neither age nor custom can stale the story of how an affair involving oral sex in a White House closet and semen stains on a blue dress brought Bill Clinton to the edge of impeachment.

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.