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Fred Turner reviews Jane Kamensky’s “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below.”
Fred Turner reviews Jane Kamensky’s “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below.”
Issei Suda’s Nabari Mie (1977), from the series ‘Fushikaden’ (1971–1978), gelatin silver print, MEP Collection, Paris, Gift of the artist in 1990. Courtesy of the artist, Akio Nagasawa Gallery, MACK and MEP. Mika Ninagawa’s TOKYO (2019), inkjet pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist, Tomio Koyama Gallery, MACK and MEP. Both images from Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography (MACK and MEP, 2024)
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Sameer Pandya traces the path of E. M. Forster’s classic novel in his own passage to India.
Charlee Dyroff reviews Gina Chung’s “Green Frog.”
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
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Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
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