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Oct 22, 2025
Blake: Dancer, we agree, is the great novel of American gay literature. None of Holleran’s rivals of the 1970s and 80s, when the category of the “gay novel”...
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Oct 21, 2025
One of the central tensions of American life thrums in the double meaning of “identity.” On the one hand, the word refers to a unique, irreplaceable, individual self,...
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Aug 13, 2025
Some years ago, Tablet, a Jewish online magazine for which I was once a frequent contributor, ran a series of articles considering the parallels between the experiences of...
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Jul 3, 2025
Translation suggests that there are many ways of being good—but no sure method. A sentence in a foreign language can be translated successfully into our own by a number of...
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May 16, 2025
Andrew Ewell’s Set for Life has already met its deserved fate. The novel is doing as poorly as it should on Goodreads and has failed to impress professional...
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Mar 21, 2025
Literature begins with the silence of the gods. As long as extra-human powers spoke to human beings, who communicated their messages in poems, stories, and dramas,...
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Mar 19, 2025
Everyone wants to be a free thinker, or at least to be seen by others as thinking freely. Sometimes we imagine even our most embarrassing acts of conformism as daring ventures of...
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Mar 5, 2025
If critique could kill, neoliberalism would long be dead. So far, however, neither decades of intellectual opposition from the left and right nor the past decade of populist politics...
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Jan 27, 2025
Looking back on the popular music of the 1950s to the 1970s, it’s almost unbelievable how performers from Liberace to the Village People were embraced by clueless (and often...
Oct 22, 2025Blake: Dancer, we agree, is the great novel of American gay literature. None of Holleran’s rivals of the 1970s and 80s, when the category of the “gay novel”...
Oct 21, 2025One of the central tensions of American life thrums in the double meaning of “identity.” On the one hand, the word refers to a unique, irreplaceable, individual self,...
Aug 13, 2025Some years ago, Tablet, a Jewish online magazine for which I was once a frequent contributor, ran a series of articles considering the parallels between the experiences of...
Jul 3, 2025Translation suggests that there are many ways of being good—but no sure method. A sentence in a foreign language can be translated successfully into our own by a number of...
Mar 21, 2025Literature begins with the silence of the gods. As long as extra-human powers spoke to human beings, who communicated their messages in poems, stories, and dramas,...
Mar 19, 2025Everyone wants to be a free thinker, or at least to be seen by others as thinking freely. Sometimes we imagine even our most embarrassing acts of conformism as daring ventures of...
Jan 27, 2025Looking back on the popular music of the 1950s to the 1970s, it’s almost unbelievable how performers from Liberace to the Village People were embraced by clueless (and often...