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All That Lovely Old Transsexual Shit
Agnes Borinsky appreciates all the ways Vivian Blaxell’s does transness in her book-length essay “Worthy of the Event.”
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Rebel Girls
Elizabeth Alsop considers the third season of “Yellowjackets.”
The Heir Conditioner
The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”
Working Out the Kinks
Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”
Mann Men
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Brimming with Pathos
Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”
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.
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