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Damned if You Do: On Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear
I kept reading, reassuring myself that Burke was setting Natalie up for a fall. Surely the novel would eventually vindicate the women Natalie dismissed. Surely this was all heading toward a familiar moral: Tradwife fantasies are reactionary nonsense and professional…
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Play the Cards as They Lay
My point of view on my desires was certainly formed by my religion, and it is probable, highly likely even, that a young man despised by the very same religion finds his faith faltering. It is therefore an awful thing…
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Sunday Scaries: “Delicates”
Even the crunching tick of the mounted clock held off to hear Gwendolyn’s need for disruption.
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What We Are Allowed to Give
This is what it means to be a child who receives love and damage from the same pair of hands. You do not only inherit the damage. You inherit the confusion about what love is supposed to feel like, whether…
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Won’t You Stream Every Movie on the Criterion Channel with Me
If older brains measure time in memories let’s relive every moment, sitting in the dark, sharing a box of nonpareils at the arthouse theater, back when stream was still a fluid thing we rock-hopped over.
