She had planned to write about her high school philosophy teacher, a man who taught his students to question everything - a worldview that easily accommodated conspiracy theories.

When Marta was accused, Viren was already working on a book - one that would be a philosophical reckoning with the truth. Crucially, throughout, Viren reflects on the relationship between truth and facts, and how facts can 'tell different stories depending on who is picking them out and placing them in a narrative line.' This layer of rumination on lies, honesty, and nonfiction storytelling takes the essay beyond a rehashing of wrongdoing and into a deeper exploration of how easily fact and fiction can blur - a topic that should matter to us all. The essay - which has now become part of her memoir To Name the Bigger Lie - is gripping in part because it combines a detective story with a Kafkaesque nightmare of becoming tangled in academic bureaucracy. Viren and Marta quickly discovered that this was the truth - but they needed the facts to prove it.

The Title IX complaints were part of a smear campaign against the couple from a man who was competing with Viren for a creative writing professorship at the University of Michigan. In it, she told the story of how her wife Marta - like Viren, a professor at Arizona State University - was anonymously accused of sexually harassing female students in 2019.

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