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Jane Alison In Praise of a Little-Known Novel From Ireland’s Foremost Chronicler of the Feminine Experience

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Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Dylin Hardcastle Recommends Alana Portero, James Baldwin, Lars Horn, and More

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Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

The Author of “The Dry Season” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

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Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Steven W. Thrasher Remembers One of the World’s First AIDS Doctors

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Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

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Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson

Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson

Gabrielle Korn Explores Bodily Autonomy, Self-Censorship, and How Desire Shapes Our Writing

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“We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.”

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17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

Annabelle Hirsch Explores the History of Female Self-Pleasure

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Love and Looking: On What We (Don't) See Together

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We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

"I want to offer comfort and be comforted by the company."

By Fancy Feast | October 12, 2023

Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

"Desire is always silly, and self-serious, and enormous, and and and and and and."

By Isle McElroy | September 29, 2023

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

By Tracy Daugherty | September 18, 2023

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