There is much sex but little love in the first volume of writer and activist Larry Kramer’s The American People, subtitled Search for My Heart. It contains episodes of imagined and hypothetical gay sex throughout early America (so many penises, so little time). In addition to writing about George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Walt […]
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‘The Hidden World of the Fox’ Is a Guide to Coexistence
Author Adele Brand prefers facts to unfounded fears
I enjoyed watching an adorable mother fox and kits last summer in my South Wellfleet neighborhood. I considered myself privileged to witness their antics and also to catch glimpses of male foxes while I’ve been out and about on long walks. Here on the Cape, I wasn’t thinking of the ways foxes frequently inspire anger […]
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In Out Loud: A Memoir, Mark Morris Bares All
But the modern dance master is less than self-aware
“Whatever is in him,” the critic Joan Acocella wrote of Mark Morris in her 1993 biography, “out it comes. This goes for his dances — he creates with extraordinary ease — and for everything he does.” In Out Loud, the memoir that the pathbreaking dancer, choreographer, and conductor Mark Morris has released with the assistance […]
