The first time I saw Gioncarlo Valentine, what I felt was jealousy. It was in a photograph, a nearly nude self-portrait, showing Valentine spread out on a bed. The look on his face awed and terrified me—I’d never seen someone with a big, beautiful black body like mine look so content to be naked in […]
Salesclerk: Greetings, maiden. How may I help ye? Me: Well, I’ve been in the mall for three hours. I intended to get this errand completed in forty-five minutes. I’ve looked in sixteen different stores. I’ve purchased a soft pretzel, CBD hand lotion, and a melon-flavored bubble tea. I think I may collapse. Salesclerk: Be seated, […]
A day or two after the Stonewall Riots, in June, 1969, Virginia Apuzzo, a twenty-eight-year-old nun and college lecturer, went down to Sheridan Square looking to shed her shame. The shame had been with her since she was ten and proposed to a girl who was perhaps a year older, a neighbor in an apartment […]
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The first Democratic debate of the 2020 primary season had been going for about thirty-five minutes when Don from D.C., formerly of Jamaica Estates and Fifth Avenue, registered his opinion in a one-word review on Twitter. “BORING!” As is so often the case, the First Critic, who was tuning in from Air Force One, en […]
“Fleishman Is in Trouble,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, meanders amiably until it becomes, suddenly, all sharpness. The novel is about Toby Fleishman, a hepatologist in his forties who is undergoing a bitter divorce from his wife, Rachel. She’s left their two kids with Toby and vanished to a yoga retreat, which has complicated our hero’s foray […]
Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing on Capitol Hill to consider whether to hold Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for refusing to release documents related to the Trump Administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the census. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat, said that the recent release of […]
The first painting that I saw by Mark Greenwold was, it seemed, a kind of cozy domestic scene. Some people stand in a beautiful room before a lit fireplace, dressed as family might be while hanging around over the holidays. Greenwold himself is front and center, a self-portrait in a zipped-up cardigan and pants. Next […]
It would be silly to expect much actual debating at this week’s Democratic primary debates. Twenty candidates—ten on each night—will take the stage, on Wednesday and Thursday, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, in Miami, a crowd of competitors so large that it won’t leave much room for deliberative back-and-forth. A more […]
As a sling for a broken arm If you wear a one-piece swimsuit with the stomach cut out, someone may make fun of you, in which case you will punch them, and you will break your arm. Fortunately, your swimsuit doubles as a sling! As a Björn carrier for your dog The Venn diagram of […]