Hard Corps
BOOTS Created by Andy Parker Netflix WHILE YOU WERE busy watching the sports romance Heated Rivalry as it crashed a Zamboni named Desire into a wall of spectators, you…More
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Letters to the Editor
Readers’ thoughts.
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Rosa von Praunheim’s Films Started a Revolution
THE NEWS came as a shock. Only two days after legendary German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim had shared photographs of his wedding to longtime partner Oliver Sechting—images full of celebrity guests from the film world, a cake topped with a giant penis, and Rosa himself looking radiant in pink despite being in a wheelchair—his husband announced that Rosa had died on December 17th at age 83.
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Poetry from the March-April 2026 Issue
galveston 1977 our first spring break we shared a beach house though it was april it was chilly and we saw only puffy dowagers in bathing caps enormous dull…More
Geoffry Wheatly Cobb and His Youthful Crew
“THAT THIS, the most perfectly natural & necessary & easy joy in the world should be branded as abominable, is so utterly silly, that I almost fail to believe the idea can be seriously entertained, & almost fail to realise the risk.” Geoffry Wheatly Cobb, the wealthy owner of Caldicot Castle in Wales, wrote this in 1909, when he was 51.
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The Men in Tchaikovsky’s Life
THE GREAT Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was renowned throughout the world by the time of his death. His major works, including the First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, Romeo and Juliet, the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, were lauded in Russia, Europe, England, and the United States.
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Jack Spicer’s Heart of a Second Baseman
IF THERE’S ANYTHING poet Jack Spicer (1925–1965) and his archivist-biographer, the late Kevin Killian, can teach a reader, it’s that anything can be a poem, even a letter. The letter, as a literary thing, is one of several “occasional” forms, like “Dedication to Your Swimming Pool” by the Roman poet Statius, written to crash a rich man’s pool party, drink his wine, and feel up his spouse. It’s occasional like lectures, introductions, obituaries, sermons, thank-you notes, dedications, dirges, odes.
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Stories of First Steps
IN ERIC C. WAT’S short story collection, Daddy Issues, the author reveals hidden responsibilities, roles, and rules that shape the lives of his queer, Asian-American protagonists, who have come of age in L.A. and now must contend with adult life.
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Patricia Cronin’s Army of Love
THE FEMALE NUDE has been the subject of art for at least 30,000 years. Since the Venus of Willendorf to the present day, the meaning of the female body has remained a flashpoint in art and culture.
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