Trans-Thrillers

from The Atlantic Why Men Pretend to Be Women to Sell Thrillers Over the last decade, female writers have come to dominate crime fiction, a genre traditionally associated with men. But their appeal goes beyond the byline. by SOPHIE GILBERT Rafael Marchante / Reuters...

Sam Shepard Gone

from DEADLINE  Broadway Will Dim The Lights For Sam Shepard by Jeremy Gerard Ben Rothstein/Warner Bros./REX/Shutterstock On Broadway, Shepard debuted with his contribution to the musical revue Oh! Calcutta! (1969) followed by Operation Sidewinder (1970), a revival of...

Is my husband gay, is my wife crazy?

from Vox Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves. by Sean Illing Two weeks ago, I interviewed Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies, a new book that uses data on America’s Google...

The Alexandria Quartet

from Literary Hub THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA ONE OF THE GREAT CENTERS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, EVER By James Crawford In 1960, four novels by the well-known English writer Lawrence Durrell were brought together in one volume and published...