Following his International Dylan Thomas Prize-winning short-story collection, Lot (2019), Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is what he calls “a gay slacker dramedy”. With exquisite attention to the ever-shifting spaces between…
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At the age of eighty-five, Vivian Gornick feels she still has unfinished business. “The effort required to attain some semblance of an integrated self”, she writes, is “the task…
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Part intro to Russian literature, part musings on craft, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is all pleasure. Best known for his surrealist short stories and Man Booker…
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In December 1953, Hugh Hefner launched the inaugural issue of Playboy, featuring unlicensed nudes of Marilyn Monroe. The magazine was an instant hit, quickly selling out of its print run…
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When the floodgates of #MeToo opened in 2017, the conversation about sexual harassment and assault quickly detonated into a broader discussion of “bad dates”…