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“It’s My Body and My Business”: In Search of General Agreement

When you hear someone say: “I have the right to decide what happens to my body,” where do you place them on the political spectrum? What they say next can come from radically different political positions. For example, “I decide what ...

Oct 20

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LINDA TRINKAUS ZAGZEBSKI

Quarterly Journal: No. 31, Semipublic Intellectual Issue

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The 14th-Century Sexual Revolution: On Guido Ruggiero’s “Love and Sex in the Time of Plague”

Dan Turello considers "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague," the recently published book by Guido Ruggiero....

Oct 20

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DAN TURELLO

Inspired, Polyvocal, Joyful: On Warren Ellis’s “Nina Simone’s Gum”

Kathleen Rooney explores Warren Ellis’s “Nina Simone’s Gum.”...

Oct 19

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KATHLEEN ROONEY

Ask Ellie: “Should I choose my home or my marriage?”

Ask Ellie” is LARB’s new advice column, drawing wisdom from the great myths and stories to navigate the terrible, glorious weirdness and difficulty of modern life. Please submit your dilemmas, midnight anxieties, fear, loathing, and confusion to askelliehere@gmail.com. ¤ ...

Oct 19

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ELLIE ROBINS

Guiding Lights: On “Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History”

Annie Berke reviews Elana Levine's "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History," on a pivotal genre and its diverse fandom ...

Oct 19

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ANNIE BERKE

Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada—A Raft

Installation views of Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada—A Raft, May 8, 2021–January 9, 2022 at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York. Digital Image © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York. Photo by Denis Doorly.