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Theses on Hating

Hate! Lara Langer Cohen and Brian Connolly - June 16, 2015 3

Hating is underloved. It loses out to the more presentable avidities: desire, eagerness, delight. To be a hater is to be a joyless troll....

Essays that we, as ladies of early middle age, would like to see written*

Featured Avidly - December 19, 2014 12

“Witty Meeting Comebacks that Indicate Your Displeasure While Concealing the (Professionally Discrediting) Whirling Dervish of Your Rage” "Throwing Money at Problems: A Justification" “Is This Sex...

Come on, compadre. Come on!

Bodies and Minds Claire Jarvis - January 8, 2013 7

There is absolutely nothing about Point Break that is not wonderful. Even the bad parts (there are no bad parts). You can watch this movie...

Silly Theory

Books You Should Read Jordan Alexander Stein - November 20, 2012 8

Some years ago, I found myself at 24-hour vegetarian diner in a California college town, breakfasting with a dear friend. We had ordered coffee,...

Love in the Ruins: or, Should I Go To Grad School?

Teacher, Teacher Pete Coviello - November 13, 2012 22

On a late-spring day sometime in the mid-90s, I found myself sitting with a friend on a stone bench overlooking a prospect of conventional,...

Top Seven Ladies Who Could Have Used Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate

Bodies and Minds Sarah Mesle - November 2, 2012 26

Here’s a thing about my students: they cannot imagine a world without birth control. Or rather, it does not occur to them that a...

Theses on Hating

Essays that we, as ladies of early middle age, would like to see written*

Come on, compadre. Come on!

Silly Theory

Love in the Ruins: or, Should I Go To Grad School?

Top Seven Ladies Who Could Have Used Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate

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