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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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fiction

June 2016

Beast

Paul Kingsnorth

fiction

June 2016

I stood in the river up to my knees and the river was cold. The water filled my boots...

feature

January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

feature

January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with Marina Warner

Elizabeth Dearnley

Interview

Issue No. 1

At the beginning of From the Beast to the Blonde, her study of fairy tales and their tellers, Marina...

 

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