She’s Got the Look
Unsuitable is likely to surprise and enlighten even readers with an extensive knowledge of the history of women-loving women. It would make a great basis for a documentary film.
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November-December 2024
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Holiday Season: ‘The Gossip Issue’
From the Editor.
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‘The men were always Murmuring.’ 
In his new book Vicious and Immoral, John Gilbert McCurdy reports on at least one case of child abuse whose details are still sickening to read about. And then there were the class resentments that the “subalterns” (anyone below the rank of captain) felt vis-à-vis the officers who outranked them.
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What Lorca and Dalí Almost Had
Many believe that de Falla was a repressed homosexual. Never married or known to have a lover, de Falla had many queer friends in Spain and Paris, including Lorca. Unlike de Falla, Lorca fully acted on his gay desires, notably in his turbulent relationship with artist Salvador Dalí. Flamenco is deeply embedded in Lorca’s poetry and plays, as well as in de Falla’s music. Listen to de Falla’s “El Amor Brujo” or “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” and hear his vibrant, flamenco-inspired sound.
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D. H. Lawrence’s White Peacock
“‘FETCH A TOWEL,’ he called, ‘and come on!’” So begins Cyril and George’s steamy swim in D. H. Lawrence’s first all-male erotic scene, which is found in his debut novel, The White Peacock.
MoreThe Love Song of Lorca and Dalí
Dalí and Lorca met briefly at the opening of Lorca’s Doña Rosita the Spinster in 1935. They told a journalist: “We haven’t seen each other in seven years but it seems like we never stopped talking.”
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1947: Tales of Tanglewood
While Bernstein welcomed Richard Romney to Tanglewood, Felicia Montealegre (his fiancée) had to force her way in.
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Matthew Hays chats with a superstar philanthropist.
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A Power Couple Leaves a Legacy
Windham met Campbell at the studio of artist Paul Cadmus. Brimming with charm and wit, they were friends wth the leading writers of the day.
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Lady Day of the Night
Alexander’s book is the first full-length biography of Billie Holiday since Donald Clarke’s Wishing on the Moon (1994). Holiday herself wanted to title her autobiography “Bitter Crop,” the last two words of her signature song, the still shocking “Strange Fruit.” Focusing on the last year of her life as a unifying thread, Bitter Crop shifts backward and forward in time, moving briskly through the singer’s life.
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