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Sexographies: Your New Favorite Made-Up Word

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June 23, 2018: The Madrid-based Peruvian feminist Gabriela Wiener is fighting the good fight, sex-wise. Sexographies, her first book translated …

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Vertigo at 60

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April 24, 2018: Judy, Judy, Judy…what did Jimmy Stewart do to you? I had the pleasure of thinking this through …

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Trainspotting at 25

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February 27, 2018: Listen here, laddies and lassies: Trainspotting (book, not movie) turns twenty-five this year, and I just wrote …

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Keith, I Said; I Said Keith

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December 27, 2017: Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith in The Awl Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith …

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Old Gray Lady, Two

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December 1, 2017: My second piece for the New York Times Book Review—a cluster review of kids’ books that would …

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Best Forgotten VII: One of These Days, Alice…

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October 6, 2017: Funny how the first two times I devoted a Best Forgotten column to a movie (see here …

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Rumours Is 40, Stevie Is Timeless

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August 29, 2017: It’s okay: you can be a good punk and still like Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, which turns forty …

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Me and the Old (Gray) Lady

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August 25, 2017: That’s not me with Dame Edna: that’s Stella McCartney. And Dame Edna isn’t gray, or even (technically) …

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Best Forgotten VI: Hard-Boiled, Over Easy

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July 13, 2017: Evan Hunter (1926–2005) was probably best known as the screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963), but …

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Mom’s Friend’s Picasso

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May 11, 2017: Hey you! (Yes, you.) The Awl just posted “The Picasso in Her Closet,” my essay about a …

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Nell Beram

Nell Beram is a former Atlantic Monthly staff editor and coauthor of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Abrams, 2013). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared at The Awl, The Cut, Slate, and Salon and in The New York Times Book Review, L'Officiel, The Threepenny Review, V magazine, and elsewhere.

She lives in the Boston area with her husband and children.

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