Laura Kipnis

The Fatal Ensnaring of Dan DePew

I first met Dan DePew at Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in upstate New York. In contrast to the monster of aggression painted by prosecutors, I came to see DePew as someone who’d always felt like a failure at masculinity, which loomed, grail-like and unattainable, in his psyche.

You Old Dog!

Sigrid Nunez’s novel ‘The Friend’

Letting Their Hair Down

Kill All the Editors

Kick Against the Pricks

In the tallest skyscrapers and plushest hotels of the most advanced economies, many high-profile men have been acting the part of feudal lords.