“The illegal free party scene has come back: the green fields of the West Country and Wales rock to the sound of a repetitive beat for days on end.”
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Balthazar, 1997
“The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.
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Opposable Thumbs
“On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me.”
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Field Notes from a Body
“As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe.”
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Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
“A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page.”
