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Leo Reich strode onstage to the thudding beat of Hot in It,” by Tiésto and Charli XCX. His batwing-lined eyes gleamed, and he was dressed in a contour-molding MISBHV T-shirt and a pair of black short shorts whose white piping outlined his crotch. Grabbing a microphone stand and casting a mockbashful look at the audience, he explained, I didn’t have any time to change. I had to, like, run here straight from my dad’s worst nightmare.” It was a mild September evening at Earth Hackney, a venue in East London, and Reich was performing his standup comedy show, Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!” Shiny black zip-up boots endowed his steps with a peppy bounce. Td just like to introduce myself, for those of you who don't know me,” he said. m Leo. I’m queer.” There were whoops from the audience, and Reich approached several people who, perilously, had seats in the front row. Looking around, it seems like some of you guys’—he swept an arm in an arch gesture of inclusivity—‘“might a/so have a sexuality which is iconic.”
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SUBJECT AND OBJECT
What happened when Lillian Ross profiled Ernest Hemingway.
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ROYAL FLUSH
The fall of red.
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Roz Chast on George Booth's Cartoons
There's almost nothing I like more than a laughing fit. It is a non-brain response, like an orgasm or a sneeze.
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CHUKA
I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name.
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Rachel Aviv on Janet Malcolm's "Trouble in the Archives"
As Janet Malcolm worked on \"Trouble in the Archives,\" a two-part piece about prominent psychoanalysts who disagreed about Freud, she began a correspondence with Kurt Eissler, the head of the Sigmund Freud Archives.
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PERSONAL HISTORY - A VISIT TO MADAM BEDI
I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.
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AMERICAN CHRONICLES - WAR OF WORDS
Editors, writers, and the making of a magazine.
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LIVE FROM NEW YORK
A new docuseries commemorates fifty years of \"Saturday Night Live.\"
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TANGLED WEB
An arachnophobe pays homage to the spider.
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Mike White's mischievous morality plays.