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The article explores Amy's experience as she visits a potential new apartment, reflecting on her recent life changes and the emotional weight of moving forward. Topics include Amy's internal conflict about her impending law school journey, the symbolism of the rose left on the stoop, and her reflections on past relationships and family influences during her apartment search.

Michael Cunningham's ''Day'' peeks into the lives of a family on one specific April date across three years as life changes because of Covid and other challenges. DAY, by Michael [...]

Refuseniks in 1970s Moscow try to untangle an ax murder in Paul Goldberg's new novel, ''The Dissident.'' THE DISSIDENT, by Paul Goldberg The sociological description of 1970s Soviet activist life [...]

The article presented a story called "The Letter" by Caleb Crain. It follows Riley, who receives a picture of a handwritten letter in an email notification. The letter turns out to be from an old boyfriend named Matty, who expresses his feelings and desires for Riley to enjoy his life and be himself. Despite Matty's request to let go, Riley is left with mixed emotions and a sense of nostalgia as he reads the heartfelt message.

IT WAS VULGAR AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a PandemicBy Jack Lowery When the AIDS activist movement ACT UP was at the height of [...]

THE INTERIMBy Wolfgang HilbigTranslated by Isabel Fargo Cole The only thing worse than living under a totalitarian Communist regime is outliving one. That seems to be the half-serious gravamen of [...]

Byline: Caleb Crain An Accidental Activist The gay-rights movement's unradical pioneer. tifIllustration by Mike McQuade / Source: Kay Tobin � the New York Public LibraryFrank Kameny's crusade against discrimination began [...]

Byline: Caleb Crain City Limits What a white-supremacist coup looks like. tifIllustration by Bill BraggAfter burning down the office of a black newspaper, participants posed outside.67 On November 10, 1898, [...]

Byline: Caleb Crain State of the Unions What happened to America's labor movement? tifIllustration by Rose WongSince the fifties, the proportion of union members in the labor force has declined [...]

LOUDERMILK Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World By Lucy Ives 334 pp. Soft Skull Press. Paper, $16.95. Sometime in the past decade, the word ''bro'' began [...]

When Brooklyn Was Queer By Hugh Ryan In 1929, a gay novelist in a Brooklyn cafeteria was flirted with by his waiter, to the novelist's surprise. ''Brooklyn is wide open,'' [...]

QUEER CITYGay London from the Romans to the Present DayBy Peter Ackroyd262 pp. Abrams Press. $26. The first generation of lesbian and gay scholars after Stonewall compiled tomes of evidence [...]

Byline: Caleb Crain Merchants of Doom Is capitalism a threat to democracy? tifIllustration by Alvaro Dominguez; photograph from iStock / GettyA new book blames authoritarianism on politicians entranced by the [...]

The poem "Lifer" by Caleb Crain is presented. First Line: That fall I biked to Fort Greene Park three times; Last Line: too far, thought, for a while, prettier.

Byline: Caleb Crain None of the Above The case against democracy. Roughly a third of American voters think that the Marxist slogan 'From each according to his ability to each [...]

Byline: BY CALEB CRAIN LOST ILLUSIONS The Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War. On the morning of February 27, 1937, which began cold and gray, a few hundred [...]