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Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas
It is sunset on the Vegas Strip. The angels are standing in their corsets, their feathered heels. There are so many Zach Galifianakises, with varying degrees of girth, varyingly realistic monkeys on...
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‘Worshipping This Crazy Female Energy Eruption’: An Interview with Sarah Barmak
Get a couple of drinks into her and my best friend from high school will likely share the story of how, on a music department field trip our junior year, a big group of us locked ourselves into my...
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The Age of Anxiety: On The Catcher in the Rye
About a year ago, while roaming through a bookstore in Toronto, I saw a new edition of The Catcher in the Rye. I’d devoured it as a teen, when it had served as my personal portal to New York City,...
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In Defense of Our Decision to Become a Republican Party House Band
I feel confident that, looking back, our only regret will be not having become a Republican Party house band sooner. When the furor has died down and Trump is on his second term and the streets are...
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Confessions of a Sexual Skeptic
Maryam*, a 24-year-old Somali woman, sports a long skirt covering her ankles and a hijab, and is a whirlwind of energy. A devout Muslim, she is a virgin by choice, waiting for a real connection that...
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Miss Cat-geniality
I unclipped the kennel latches and patiently waited for my cat to willingly exit.Earlier that morning my wife and I feared accidentally dislocating his limbs while vertically cramming him through the...
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It's Okay To Suck
For fidelity to mediocrity, no one beats Florence Foster Jenkins. The subject of a Stephen Frears-directed biopic starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant coming out in North America in August, Jenkins was...
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Lady Dynamite Owns Its Afflictions
Sometimes, I fall into a hole. Not a literal hole, in the soil, but in my head; not only in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep, though it does happen then, too. I will think about one negative...
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'I Don’t Know Why This City Sees Fit to Kill Its Women': An Interview with...
Sam Wiebe’s Invisible Dead is tagged with many of the adjectives you’d associate with a new urban private-detective story: noir, gritty, hard-boiled—and the book deserves them all. But it also...
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Fanshawe
Her voice is distant, reflected from tower to tower, three bars of cellular signal pressed to my ear. “Always, Pete. I go back to this party and tell them what.”“Your boyfriend’s bathing. He bathes.”...
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The Disappearing Act
In 1993, Margaret Rossiter coined a term for the forgotten women in science and, more generally, academia: The Matilda Effect. There was a pattern throughout history, she argued, of women who, when...
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The Close of the First Decade
Collage by Sarah GerardMouthful is a new monthly column about the author’s relationship with food, ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia.It’s July, sticky. My husband is fixing me an egg...
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‘An Artist Who Can Turn Ugliness Into Beauty’: An Interview with Hany Abu-Assad
Uplifting. Life-affirming. Joyous. In the past, these adjectives haven’t been applied to the films of Hany Abu-Assad. The Palestinian director is best known for his heavy, Oscar-nominated works...
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The Cinematic Isolation of Female Sex Workers
Last year, one could hardly shake a metallic gold G-string at the internet without hitting a story about the feminism at the heart of Magic Mike XXL. This rowdy comedy about male strippers and the...
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The Loneliest Job in Cinema: On Film's Friendless Female Sex Workers
Last year, one could hardly shake a metallic gold G-string at the internet without hitting a story about the feminism at the heart of Magic Mike XXL. This rowdy comedy about male strippers and the...
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Featuring Anupa Mistry
On Episode 16 of Cavern of Secrets, Lauren has had it up to here with your thoughts on art, before sitting down with The FADER’s Anupa Mistry.
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Southern Golems
I stand with my family in front of a mass grave of siddurim on Christmas Day. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the 3,000 prayer books belonging to Beth Israel synagogue, and, as per tradition, they’re...
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