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Beyond Sugar Hill

When I talk about female friendship, I feel a kind of ambivalence: there’s a whole school of chick lit and soppy movies about the redemptive qualities of female friendship, how your female friend is gonna be there no matter what and is more important than anyone else out there. I don’t mean that friendships like that don’t exist, but what I’m more interested in are depictions of friendships Lila and Lenu’s in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, which is all over the place – both dangerous and nurturing – depending when you drop in.

Linda Mannheim in conversation with Kit Caless.

Poem Brut #112 – Horoscopes

These poems are collaged horoscopes cut out from Harper’s Baazar’s “real” horoscopes.

In the 112th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Ariadne Radi Cor.