Browsing Category Essays

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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Pretty Bomb Poem

  Richard Wilbur raises the alarm.

  By Alex Howe
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  You, Too, Dislike It: City High

  Terrance Hayes' love letter to New York.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  On “On Smarm”

  Gawker spent 9,000 words trying to justify its snarkiness. It failed.

  By Travis Mushett
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Let’s Not Understand

  Mary Ruefle's joyous nonsense.

  By Alex Howe
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  Columns

  When Coming Out Doesn’t Work

  Coming out makes life easier for The Straights, but not always for us.

  By Caspar
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  Columns

  Street Writer: Berlin Digressions

  Berlin isn't the only city with a wall.

  By Travis Mushett
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  You, Too, Dislike It: Before and After Love

  Love and darkness with Louise Glück.

  By Alex Howe
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  You, Too, Dislike It: Love, Theoretically

  Finding affection in intellectualism.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  Detroit State of Mind

  As Detroit faces bankruptcy, its people are responding with a revolution of everyday life.

  By Nick Mirzoeff
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  Columns

  I’m Queer & So Are You: Against Being Born This Way

  The common defense undermines our fight for liberation and is a symptom of rape culture.

  By Caspar
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  Street Writer: Morningside Drive

  Writing is misery. Thank god for the egotism and obsession that make it possible.

  By Travis Mushett
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  You, Too, Dislike It: Girl, Problematized

  Alex Howe annotates a poem about wandering eyes.

  By Alex Howe