Nonfiction

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

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

Streaming the Polycrisis

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

Ucky Art

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

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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Nonfiction

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The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 4, 2019
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Ode to my Father’s Boots

On aging
Cornelius Eady
February 28, 2019
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The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
February 18, 2019
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Philip Roth, Landlord

A literary rentier
Terena Elizabeth Bell
February 4, 2019
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What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 14, 2019
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Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019
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Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
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What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019