Gender & Sexuality

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

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  Too Much of Not Enough: An Interview with Alenka Zupančič

  On sexuality as the link between knowing and being.

  Cassandra SeltmanMar 9, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Philosophy & Religion

• Mary Beard Discusses Women, Power, and #MeToo

  LARB Law Editor Don Franzen talks to Mary Beard about her new manifesto.

  Don FranzenMar 5, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Law

  • Politics

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  It Takes Many Kinds to Dismantle a Patriarchal Village

  Skye C. Cleary interviews Kate Manne, author of "Down Girl."

  Skye C. ClearyMar 2, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Politics

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  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.

  Barrie Jean BorichFeb 28, 2018

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Music

• 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.

  Helen Betya RubinsteinFeb 26, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  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.

  Dustin FriedmanFeb 25, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • History

  • Politics

• 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.”

  Alex EspinozaFeb 25, 2018

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  A piece by Yxta Maya Murray.

  Yxta Maya MurrayFeb 20, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Politics

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  Elio’s Education

  D. A. Miller on the mainstream gay-themed movie, the Beautiful Life, and "Call Me by Your Name."

  D. A. MillerFeb 19, 2018

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Playing the Girl: Ten False Starts (After Janet Malcolm)

  Karen Karbo tries to review "You Play the Girl" by Carina Chocano.

  Karen KarboFeb 18, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Queer Desires, Queer Disagreements

  Will Clark explores “The Ethics of Opting Out” as an introduction to key debates in contemporary queer theory and a path to a more engaged queer politics.

  Will ClarkFeb 16, 2018

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Dissolving Identities: On Cristina Rivera Garza’s “The Iliac Crest”

  Rachel Ballenger dwells in “The Iliac Crest,” a novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker.

  Rachel BallengerFeb 14, 2018

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality