Stories, Articles & Essays
Granta
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.
Fiction from Rafael Frumkin, featuring psychiatrists brandishing DSM–5, delusions, transference and the menacing voice of Alex Trebek.
I would peel wrappers off sandwiches, remove noodles from their boxes, fry up meat before any authorities had the chance to track me and my bounty down.
I came home this past fall to the Chicago suburb where I’d lived with my parents from age nine until I left for college in 2008, and I moved back into my childhood bedroom.
Them and not me, thought EJP. I can be invisible. I’m glitching.
The New York Times
Is It a Campus or a Powder Keg? In This Novel, It’s Both.
In her new novel, “The Laughter,” Sonora Jha satirizes academia by following an older, white male professor who is lusting after his younger, Pakistani colleague, all while a student protest brews.
Guernica
There’s so much I want to say to my doppelgänger. But she’s gone.
What if the world can “end,” as your life has many times—and then begin again?
If sex work were decriminalized, would Alisha Walker still have been charged with murder?
Striving for goodness is antithetical to reckoning with whiteness.
Hazlitt
The videos were different from anything I’d ever seen. Rope, leather, buckles, straitjackets, Lycra, latex, gas masks, ball gags. The women had ideas and Vanessa let them act the ideas out.
The Cut
I Think About Meadow Soprano Trying to Parallel Park a Lot
Meadow and I both know that we only have so much time before some cataclysm, be it a Dustin Hoffman knockoff or a deadly pandemic, interrupts our happiness.
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The Washington Post
Joyland
Paris Review
Pacific Standard
The Baffler
McSweeney’s
Your Prescribing Doctor: Adulthood
Your Prescribing Doctor: Kidhood
Your Prescribing Doctor: I Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Your Prescribing Doctor: Subcontinental Lithiation Pt. 2
Your Prescribing Doctor: Subcontinental Lithiation Pt. 1
So You Want to Get into an MFA Program: A Decision Tree