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Andrea Dworkin did not love pornography. I don’t mean this as comic understatement of her well-publicized, steadfast opposition to it and of her attempts, with legal...

A folk opera retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice got a whopping 14 nominations for this year’s Tony Awards, more than any other musical—but...

For pride month, we’re rounding up some of our favorite stories and novel excerpts by and about queer people from the Recommended Reading archives. These stories...

My obsession with tiny houses began when I read about Dee Williams, who reassessed her life priorities after a medical emergency and built her own 84-square-foot...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller will always be one of my favorite books. It transcends its setting and seems universal. I have no first-hand experience of the...

December feels very, very far away right now. Along with my birthday, Chanukkah, and Christmas, it also brings Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker—which, let’s be...