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The Funny Thing About Misogyny
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 39: “Air,” Katie Kadue breaks down the misogynist history of the rape joke.
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Men Explain Periods to Me
Farah Ahamed on how men reacted to her book about menstruation—by explaining menstruation.
An Excuse to Make Noise: On Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades”
Brynn Shiovitz reviews two new books on screen dance, Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era.”
Feminism Without Borders: On Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism”
Nina Pasquini reviews Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China.”
dude I’m not dead!!! On Alissa Bennett’s “Taxidermist’s Handbook”
Ariella Garmaise reviews Alissa Bennett’s compilation of celebrity-themed zines, collectively titled “Taxidermist’s Handbook.”
North Korea on the Hudson: On Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians.”
Spooky Sexy: A Conversation with K. Patrick
Naomi Pearce talks with K. Patrick about their debut novel, “Mrs. S.”
The Politics of Care: On Angela Garbes’s “Essential Labor” and Peggy O’Donnell Heffington’s “Without Children”
Sarah Stoller reviews Angela Garbes’s “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” and Peggy O’Donnell Heffington’s “Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother.”
You Can Always Get What You Want: On “The Big Chill” and American Politics
Henry M. J. Tonks explains how Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Big Chill” gets generational politics all wrong—and why we still need to watch it.
Whose Fantasy Is This? On Sally Wen Mao’s “The Kingdom of Surfaces”
Hazem Fahmy reviews “The Kingdom of Surfaces” by Sally Wen Mao.
Rereading George Eliot One Year After “Dobbs”
Dara Rossman Regaignon explores what George Eliot’s Victorian fiction can tell us about the complexities of pregnancy, viability, miscarriage, abortion, and intent.
Birth Stories Are an Ideological Minefield: A Conversation with Amanda Montei
Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”
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