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Mar 10, 20238 min read
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, 20231 min read
another heartbreaker
“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”
Oct 6, 20211 min read
on Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
by Lauren Berlant
Jun 6, 202121 min read
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, 20219 min read
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, 20211 min read
Couples by John Updike
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema
Mar 19, 202116 min read
"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, 20214 min read
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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