Masculinity is fragile. While it’s only been fairly recently that this fact has been discussed in mainstream discourse, not only does it resonate with many…
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JHUMPA LAHIRI describes her relationship to Italian as a love affair: “When you’re in love, you want to live forever… Reading in Italian arouses a…
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MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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“You piss someone off? Stand behind it.”
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The following is a post in our Side Book series, in which we speak with authors at length about their forthcoming books. Because, like our…
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I realize we’re less than a month in, but Kathleen Hale’s debut novel No One Else Can Have You is the best novel I’ve read…
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