Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon on the anger and pain of performing with her then husband after their marriage had fallen apart.
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Our Sex Education: A Reading List
Here are nine stories about modern-day sex education and our history with bad sex ed classes.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Books
Books that deserved more attention in 2015.
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When the British Museum Reading Room Was Bohemian London’s Most Happening Spot
It’s counterintuitive to think of the British Museum as a happening spot, but for a long time its reading room served as a premier gathering place for London’s brainy bohemians. In the 1880s, these included radicals like George Bernard Shaw, Henry Havelock Ellis, and Eleanor Marx, Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. They worked there, and they talked […]
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Liar: A Memoir
“Your memories are already foggy and scrambled at times. And then, they may not even be there anymore.”
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Inside the Kris Jenner Playbook
Kris and her children didn’t do much press for Season 10, unheard-of for this family or anyone promoting a TV show, really. Call it an educated guess to say that perhaps they didn’t want to be asked about Bruce’s transition. But not because they were shielding Bruce, whom they love. It was not because he […]
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The Art and Business of Book Covers
Here are pieces I’ve enjoyed, new and old, about the art and business of book cover design.
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Four Stories About Merle Haggard
Four Stories About Merle Haggard.
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Educating the Imagination: Kenneth Koch on Poetry
I was brought up in Cincinnati, Ohio. My parents were very nice. The first time I wrote a poem, my mother gave me a big kiss and said, “I love you.” The whole idea of writing poetry had a lot to do with escaping, escaping from the bourgeois society of Cincinnati, Ohio, escaping from any […]
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Postwar New York: The Supreme Metropolis of the Present
Forty labor strikes on one day, French existentialists on the loose, and a 50-foot G.I. blowing enormous puffs of REAL smoke.
