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Marcos Gonsalez
Marcos Gonsalez is a queer Mexican Puerto Rican essayist, critic, and assistant professor of literature living in New York City. His debut book of autotheory, Pedro’s Theory, was published in 2021, and has been reviewed by The New York Times and Kirkus, and nominated for a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. Gonsalez’s essays can be found or are forthcoming at The New Inquiry, Public Books, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Catapult, and elsewhere. Gonsalez is currently researching and working on a full-length book study on the writings and cultural impact of queer Latinx theorist and performance studies scholar, José Esteban Muñoz.

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The Obelisk of Loisaida

Essay

November 2021

Marcos Gonsalez

Essay

November 2021

The Luxor Obelisks stood in Ancient Egypt for thousands of years. A symmetrical pair, they were designed to mirror each other, twin columns of...

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Interview

May 2011

Interview with Alison Klayman

Shepherd Laughlin

Interview

May 2011

Until his arrest in Beijing on 3 April as he boarded a plane to Hong Kong, Ai Weiwei was...

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November 2015

Streets of Contradiction

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November 2015

Jerusalem has a remarkably cohesive identity, in architectural terms. Every building, from the Western Wall to the sleek hotels...

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Issue No. 1

On the Notoriously Overrated Powers of Voice in Fiction or How To Fail At Talking To Pretty Girls

D. W. Wilson

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Issue No. 1

On a Tuesday afternoon in July, not too long ago, a friend of mine struck a pose imitating a...

 

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