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- 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...
- Jan 23
- 1 min
another heartbreaker
“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
on Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
by Lauren Berlant
- Jun 6, 2021
- 21 min
HR Managers of the Human Soul: On Our Own American Zhdanovshchina
by Justin E. H. Smith via Substack 1. In a speech to the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow in 1934, Central Committee...
- Jun 6, 2021
- 9 min
Like Rain on Your Wedding Day
Between the sentimental, the gothic, and the ironic CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN via Bookforum WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE NARRATIVE MODE to capture...
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
Couples by John Updike
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema
- Mar 19, 2021
- 16 min
"Incorporate Everything, Understand Everything - Norman Rush’s Mating at thirty" by Scott Sherman
“In Africa, you want more, I think.” With that laconic affirmation begins one of the strangest and most sublime American novels of the...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 4 min
Movies, Movies, Movies by Natasha Stagg
This week, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “strange to have come of age reading great novels of ambition, substance, & imagination...
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