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What We’re Loving (The Love Edition)

Photo: Seyed Mostafa Zamani, via Flickr “As usual, the love plot is the least convincing aspect of the book,” said my friend, handing me a crumbling, loved-to-death copy of Barbara Pym’s last novel, A...

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Staff Picks: Pop, Rock, and Bear Hock

From Barry Guy’s Witch Gong Game ll/l0 (1993). John Swartzwelder has written more Simpsons episodes than any other writer (fifty-nine in total). He’s also one of the most eccentric writers in the...

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You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker

Photo by Kwesi Abbensetts. Morgan Parker has a long résumé—she teaches and edits—that somehow hasn’t precluded a prolific career as a poet. Her first collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at...

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The Ballad of Justin Bobby

In Brushes with Greatness, Naomi Fry writes about relatively marginal encounters with celebrities. Recently, an article I had read in an Israeli women’s magazine when I was maybe eleven popped into my...

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How to Be Authentic, and Other News

Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World, 1918.   With Obama’s last presidential speech behind him—and with churlish inarticulacy personified prepared to take his place—Christian Lorentzen wonders how the...

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White-Lady Tears

This is the last entry in a series about domestic thrillers. Still from Obsessed.   Obsessed, as they are, with both the trappings and traps of the middle class, most domestic thrillers are invested in...

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Who the Fuck Knows

Covering music in Drumpfjahr II. From the cover of YG and Nipsey Hussle’s “FDT.”   Whatever else you were doing the last three weeks of November, chances are you weren’t sleeping enough. Chances are...

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What’s Wrong with Us: An Interview with J. M. Holmes

Photo by Julie Keresztes.   J. M. Holmes’s “What’s Wrong with You? What’s Wrong with Me?” appears in our Summer issue (no. 221); it’s Holmes’s first published story. Next year, it will be included in...

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Incarnadine, the Bloody Red of Fashionable Cosmetics and Shakespearean Poetics

Janelle Monáe at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar party. Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images   When looking up the word incarnadine in Merriam Webster I found some truly discomforting writing. After a brief...

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Don’t Hate Us ’Cause We Fabulous

“Excuse me … are you Prince?” the hotel concierge asked me. At first, I thought he was joking, the kind of slightly homophobic jab I’ve grown used to hearing over the years, so I laughed as I said,...

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On Beyoncé, Beychella, and Hairography

  Hair is a large part of the wonderment—and objection—Beyoncé courts each time she holds a mic. As the critic madison moore writes of her “haircrobatics” in 2014, hairography is “the special genius...

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Joan Morgan, Hip-Hop Feminism, and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill.   One recent midsummer afternoon, I trekked from Central Brooklyn to the South Bronx to meet the pioneering hip-hop journalist and feminist writer Joan Morgan, author of the new book She...

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You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker

Photo by Kwesi Abbensetts. Morgan Parker has a long résumé—she teaches and edits—that somehow hasn’t precluded a prolific career as a poet. Her first collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at...

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The Ballad of Justin Bobby

In Brushes with Greatness, Naomi Fry writes about relatively marginal encounters with celebrities. Recently, an article I had read in an Israeli women’s magazine when I was maybe eleven popped into my...

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How to Be Authentic, and Other News

Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World, 1918.   With Obama’s last presidential speech behind him—and with churlish inarticulacy personified prepared to take his place—Christian Lorentzen wonders how the...

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White-Lady Tears

This is the last entry in a series about domestic thrillers. Still from Obsessed.   Obsessed, as they are, with both the trappings and traps of the middle class, most domestic thrillers are invested in...

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Who the Fuck Knows

Covering music in Drumpfjahr II. From the cover of YG and Nipsey Hussle’s “FDT.”   Whatever else you were doing the last three weeks of November, chances are you weren’t sleeping enough. Chances are...

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What’s Wrong with Us: An Interview with J. M. Holmes

Photo by Julie Keresztes.   J. M. Holmes’s “What’s Wrong with You? What’s Wrong with Me?” appears in our Summer issue (no. 221); it’s Holmes’s first published story. Next year, it will be included in...

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Incarnadine, the Bloody Red of Fashionable Cosmetics and Shakespearean Poetics

Janelle Monáe at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar party. Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images   When looking up the word incarnadine in Merriam Webster I found some truly discomforting writing. After a brief...

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Don’t Hate Us ’Cause We Fabulous

“Excuse me … are you Prince?” the hotel concierge asked me. At first, I thought he was joking, the kind of slightly homophobic jab I’ve grown used to hearing over the years, so I laughed as I said,...

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