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'No, I think we're just getting started.'

'No, I think we're just getting started.'

Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”

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I spent a lot of time this week listening to “Subterraneans,” the last song on 1977’s Low, by David Bowie. I didn’t know what else to do. Like a lot of other people, I had a feeling—this response to d...

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Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”

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Clayton Purdum situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

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We turned our red Roblox caps backwards and started greeting our fellow kids.

Anyone who works for very long on “the internet culture beat” has to quickly come to terms with the fact that they’ll never beat Know Your Meme. The site, which has been around since 2007, is simply f...

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