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Semi-Plausible Histories: On Torrey Peters’s “Detransition, Baby”
A sparkling debut novel challenges ideologically charged notions of gender and motherhood.
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Discomfort of the Unquantifiable: On Selina Mahmood’s “A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital”
Pallavi Yetur ruminates on the psychological implications of COVID-19 with Selina Mahmood’s “A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital.”
Insurmountable Divides: On Ethel Rohan’s “In the Event of Contact”
Jean Hey reviews Ethel Rohan’s new story collection “In the Event of Contact,” immigrant tales grounded in a distinctly Irish grit.
A Guy’s Guy: Edmund White in the 1950s
Coming out as gay in the 1950s was a more complex process than we might imagine.
Mithu Sanyal on 'Transracialism' and Identity
“Cobbling It All Together”: Mary Helen Washington and Shaun Myers, In Conversation
Mary Helen Washington and Shaun Myers discuss navigating the university environment as Black women.
Once Upon a Time: On Margreta de Grazia’s “Four Shakespearean Period Pieces”
Rhodri Lewis evaluates "Four Shakespearean Period Pieces," the latest book from Margreta de Grazia.
The Adjunct Gaze
Two new novels grapple with the precarity of women’s labor in contemporary academia.
On Not Rejecting Girlhood: A Conversation with Megan Milks and Marisa Crawford
Kate Durbin talks with with Megan Milks and Marisa Crawford about 1990s girlhood and their recent anthology about the Baby-Sitters Club phenomenon.
The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6
How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
The Stolen Joys of the Body: Aging and Sexuality in Clarice Lispector’s Short Stories
Lispector confronts the pleasures and perils of the aging female body with startling honesty.
Conjuring Love: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
A wondrous combination of love and outrage drives Kiese Laymon’s writing.
Love and Critique: A Conversation with Sanjena Sathian
Sanjena Sathian talks about her satirical coming-of-age novel “Gold Diggers.”
On Understanding Capitalism
Joshua Sperber takes a look at “A People’s Guide to Capitalism” by Hadas Thier and “Can the Working Class Change the World?” by Michael D. Yates.
The Complicity of Home: On Kazim Ali’s “Northern Light”
“Northern Light” is a mixture of memoir and environmental nonfiction that plays with the conventions of both.
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles.
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