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Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
Books

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
Television

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah

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Ideas

Hard Wired

How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022
The Moment

The Physician as Patient

Medicine after COVID-19
Laura Kolbe
June 1, 2022
Books

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME

Tracing a poetic lineage
Terrance Hayes
June 1, 2022
Essays

My Father's Library

Can you know a man through his books?
Violaine Huisman
May 23, 2022
Books

Why So Serious?

Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
May 16, 2022
Essays

Que Será, Será

Conjuring a long-forgotten memory of my mother
Sven Birkerts
April 11, 2022
Pandemic Files

Lighted Windows in Lockdown

The visible and invisible lives of others
Ben Libman
March 14, 2022
Essays

My Painting of Kyiv

Will the birthplace I love still exist for my daughter?
Maria Kuznetsova
March 12, 2022
Folio

Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss
March 1, 2022
Portrait of Sheila Heti
Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja
March 1, 2022