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Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, TeenVogue, Bookforum, and The Baffler among other outlets. Find her @emotrophywife. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Saga Press.

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The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump

The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump

The executive order banning Americans from self-identifying on their passports-which is part of a larger crac…

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The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us-or Kill Us All

The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us-or Kill Us All

What the Zizians, a trans vegan cult allegedly behind multiple murders, can teach us about radicalization and…

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Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters's Stag Dance

Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters's Stag Dance

In 'Stag Dance,' Torrey Peters seems to intentionally avoid writing into the 'trans experience.' She examines…

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Hagiography of a Narcissist: On J. D. Salinger

Hagiography of a Narcissist: On J. D. Salinger

A few years ago, I found “Hapworth 16, 1924” on the internet; I couldn’t bring myself to read it for some tim…

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Zooey Zephyr Wants to Do Right by Montana

Zooey Zephyr Wants to Do Right by Montana

In 2023, first-term State Rep. Zooey Zephyr became a household name when she was censured for fighting a gend…

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Imaginative Archives: On the Films of Jane Schoenbrun

Imaginative Archives: On the Films of Jane Schoenbrun

"I Saw the TV Glow" finds the director again using fictional cultural ephemera to construct worlds that recal…

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The Confessions of Rachel Cusk

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By Grace Byron, Kevin Lozano, Matt B. Weir
| Dissent Magazine Verified
The Confessions of Rachel Cusk Autofiction collapses the distance between creator and product. But in her latest novel, Life of M, Rachel Cusk seeks an escape from this confessional mode. Rachel Cusk attends the Ascona Literature Festival in 2021 (Maria Moratti/Getty) Life of M: A Novel by Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026, 192 pp. What is the question of autofiction: Is it true, or is it a good story? Does it matter? Or do we not, in fact, find the speculation to be its own bloodsport?
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Growing up with ‘Girls’

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By Grace Byron
| The Washington Post Verified
When Lena Dunham first met her future husband, she told him two things: “I was sick, and people did not like me. If he could be comfortable with those two immutable truths, then we could be together.” These are two of the central themes that the writer, actor, and director explores in her new memoir, Famesick. An account of making the hit HBO series Girls, the book also considers the time that Dunham spent in rehab and hospitals shortly after wrapping the show’s final season.
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Rachel Aviv and the Strange Gifts of Motherhood

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By Grace Byron
| SSENSE Verified
New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv has built a reputation writing probing profiles of overworked nurses, wronged women, and toxic mothers. The latter forms the theme of her new book published in July, You Won’t Get Free Of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, which centers on the tangled knot of the matrilineal relationship. On the first page she reveals that her mother dreamed of writing for The New Yorker and composing her own novel in the style of Madame Bovary.
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