Gender & Sexuality

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

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  The Heir Conditioner

  The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”

  Hannah ZeavinApr 9

  • LARB Lit

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Working Out the Kinks

  Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”

  Brittany MenjivarMar 27

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Mann Men

  Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”

  Clayton PurdomMar 25

  • LARB Lit

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Brimming with Pathos

  Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”

  Emily WellsMar 20

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Failures of Mirror Logic

  Megan Fernandes interviews Kiran Bath about “Instructions for Banno.”

  Megan FernandesMar 15

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  As You Write It

  Nicole Graev Lipson about her debut collection, “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays.”

  Acree Graham MacamMar 12

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Helen, Writer of Her Own Myth

  Nic Cavell reviews Maria Zoccola’s “Helen of Troy, 1993.”

  Nic CavellJan 15

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Purely Carnal

  Jourdain Searles considers Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl.”

  Jourdain SearlesJan 8

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Under the Table

  Sam Bodrojan considers “Anora” and the emasculated sadism of Sean Baker.

  Sam BodrojanJan 5

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Complexity as a Liberatory Practice

  Tara Anne Dalbow explores artist-poet Mina Loy’s thrilling embrace of contradiction.

  Tara Anne DalbowJan 2

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Children in Flight and Women in Cages

  Johanna Pelikan reviews “Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy,” edited by Karla Kelsey.

  Johanna PelikanJan 2

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  I’m Not Queer—I’m Disembodied

  Maral Attar-Zadeh explores queerness, death, and desire in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s “Queer.”

  Maral Attar-ZadehDec 29, 2024

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality