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Rebecca Rukeyser, author of the sleaziest book of the year, recommends stories dripping with lust and existential angst

Rebecca Rukeyser, author of the sleaziest book of the year, recommends stories dripping with lust and existential angst
These poems celebrate queer love, whether that love is sweet, bittersweet or somewhere in between.
The "Invisible Kingdom" author Meghan O’Rourke on the silent epidemic of chronic illness
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"Phillip is Dead" from Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin, recommended by Rachel Khong
Gretchen Felker-Martin asks who are the real villains in gender apocalypse narratives with her novel, Manhunt
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"Phillip is Dead" from Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin, recommended by Rachel Khong
Two poems by Monica Rico
"Smokes Last" from Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, recommended by Isaac Fitzgerald