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Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
The protagonists span generations, though McBride focusses on flawed men in their thirties and forties, much as Klay, Lefferts, and Conroe do. But where those authors have attempted to...
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce
Yet the newly single woman—it’s almost always a woman writing a divorce book—is also prone to culinary epiphany. In many stories, the end of a marriage prompts the rapturous...
Helen, Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
My partner and I moved in together recently, and she was horrified to learn that I cook with bottled citrus juice—you know, the little plastic lemons and limes that...
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
The ingenious answer was proposed by an art-engineering firm called SMACH. The company’s experts realized that, if the tapestry could not be rotated and stored, perhaps it could be...
The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
Na’s solution to this problem is speed: the faster he can keep his aliens moving—Va’migere, alas, is not alone—the less likely we are to scrutinize the malevolent jumble of...
Reporting the Big World
Ascherson may not have known it, but he was establishing the pattern of his career, and indeed his life: an engagement with the world driven by conscience and curiosity,...
“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows
All four are manifestly bourgeois, flashing their cash from the moment they arrive at the village where they are to stay. They blusteringly order a bedraggled local man named...
“The Disappearers” Stages the Pain and Pleasure of Jamaican Gay Life
Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack. Source link
Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” Was an Anthem, Then an Elegy
Mano’s place was a third-story walkup on a quiet stretch of Montrose Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Marcy projects. It was stuffy, barely furnished, and perpetually...
