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Brimming with Pathos
Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Failures of Mirror Logic
Megan Fernandes interviews Kiran Bath about “Instructions for Banno.”
As You Write It
Nicole Graev Lipson about her debut collection, “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays.”
Helen, Writer of Her Own Myth
Nic Cavell reviews Maria Zoccola’s “Helen of Troy, 1993.”
Purely Carnal
Jourdain Searles considers Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl.”
Under the Table
Sam Bodrojan considers “Anora” and the emasculated sadism of Sean Baker.
Complexity as a Liberatory Practice
Tara Anne Dalbow explores artist-poet Mina Loy’s thrilling embrace of contradiction.
Children in Flight and Women in Cages
Johanna Pelikan reviews “Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy,” edited by Karla Kelsey.
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.”
Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Jenny Fran Davis considers the portrayal of care in contemporary queer literature.
Teen Life Is a Horror Show
Molly D. Boyd considers Nick Cutter’s new horror novel “The Queen.”
I Like the Coldness
Madeleine Connors interviews Lili Anolik about her new book, “Didion & Babitz.”
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