The Dirty Mind and Lonely Heart of John Mayer - June 6, 2012
Why rock's biggest playboy couldn't just shut up and enjoy his success BY ERIK HEDEGAARD John Mayer goes out to a club, any club, he...
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- Mar 10
- 3 min
WIR 3/10/23
In bed - 2 essays from Camille Paglia Provocations because it was on the bedside table. "The Italian Way of Death" and "Women in Magic in...
- Mar 10
- 8 min
Constance Debré and Chris Kraus on queer identity, casual sex and the politics of refusal via Granta
Constance Debré is the author of Play Boy, winner of the 2018 Coupole Prize, and Love Me Tender, translated from the French by Holly...
- Feb 2
- 10 min
UNCENSORED: CAMILLE PAGLIA ON RIHANNA, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND SEXUALITY
The social critic and academic queen of controversy opens up in a candid interview with V. March 27, 2017 TEXT: ALEX KAZEMI Camille...
- Jan 24
- 27 min
The Trials of the Young: A Semester by MARY GAITSKILL
In 2014 I was hired, for two consecutive spring semesters, to teach writing and literature at one of the officially happiest colleges in...
- Dec 16, 2022
- 15 min
My Writing Education: A Time Line by George Saunders
George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
lesbian fascism on TERF island by Asa Seresin
https://asaseresin.com/2021/02/11/lesbian-fascism-on-terf-island/ The Rokeby Venus in 1914, after Richardson’s attack
- Sep 16, 2022
- 18 min
A Formal Feeling: Inside the world of Louise Bourgeois by Claire-Louise Bennett for Harpers
Photograph of Louise Bourgeois, 2002, by Holger Keifel © The artist Discussed in this essay: Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, edited by...
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- Apr 8, 2022
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Cultural Dopes
April 8, 2022 • By GD Dess WE’RE LIVING in an era of cultural dopes. [1] A cultural dope is someone like me or you, a consumer of...
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
Against Sexual Scandal by Lauren Berlant
March 11, 2008, 4:17 pm via Lauren's blog Supervalent Thought If I were an actual public intellectual, here’s an op-ed I would write. I...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
on Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 6 min
The Predator and the Jokester
by Lauren Berlant AL Franken has said he’ll resign. If so, he will be gone from the Senate not because he was a vicious predator but...
- Jun 23, 2021
- 43 min
The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening
From the August 23, 1976 issue of New York Magazine. I. Me and My Hemorrhoids The trainer said, “Take your finger off the repress...
- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
PALM SPRINGS ETERNAL: ALLIE ROWBOTTOM INTERVIEWS JON LINDSEY
Jon Lindsey is the author of the novel BODY HIGH (May 1, 2021, House of Vlad). He’s also my husband. We met at CalArts in 2009. We were...
- Jun 23, 2021
- 21 min
Some Notes on Attunement: Zadie Smith on Joni Mitchell
The first time I heard her I didn’t hear her at all. My parents did not prepare me. (The natural thing in these situations is to blame...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 52 min
Surveillance Capitalism
Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney The United...
- Jun 16, 2021
- 6 min
The Man Who Has Everything: Mark Fisher on Drake’s Nothing Was the Same
Originally published September 24, 2013. Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No...
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