Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, and the Washington Post.
It’s hard not to see the sex between them, watching the Obamas dancing against a blue sea of heads gazing up in the darkness. It makes me woozy to imagine a relationship that is still on the upslope 20 years later.
The revolution in female sexuality made possible by vibrators finds its sinister counterpart in the revolution in warfare made possible by unmanned aircraft
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, New Directions Publishing Stupidity is always conditional. An observer discovers some ignorance in a subject, or else the subject…