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“Women with the Gun”: American Women Journalists and the Women’s Battalion of Death
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Come Hell, Come Husbands
Finding solace and strength in Karen Karbo's "In Praise of Difficult Women."
Muscular Sanity: The Language of Pain in Literature
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
Too Much of Not Enough: An Interview with Alenka Zupančič
On sexuality as the link between knowing and being.
Mary Beard Discusses Women, Power, and #MeToo
LARB Law Editor Don Franzen talks to Mary Beard about her new manifesto.
It Takes Many Kinds to Dismantle a Patriarchal Village
Skye C. Cleary interviews Kate Manne, author of "Down Girl."
The King Who Dreamed of Being a Frog: Taylor Mac’s Heretical American History in Song
Barrie Jean Borich on Taylor Mac's "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," coming to The Theatre at the Ace Hotel from March 15–24.
Forms and Fractures: A Non-Mother’s Hunger for the Writing of Motherhood
I find myself wondering if these motherhood-books are slim as though to offset the terrifying gravitas of mothering itself, or for a more practical reason.
The Gay Conspirators: On Gregory Woods’s “Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World”
Dustin Friedman on Gregory Woods’s “Homintern,” a study of how homosexuals and queer culture shaped the modern world.
Whose Survival Is Wrapped Up in Mine: An Interview with Benjamin Bateman
Alex Espinoza talks with Benjamin Bateman about his new book, “The Modernist Art of Queer Survival.”
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A piece by Yxta Maya Murray.
Elio’s Education
D. A. Miller on the mainstream gay-themed movie, the Beautiful Life, and "Call Me by Your Name."
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