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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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February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

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February 2015

White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

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

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October 2015

War is Easy, Peace is Hard

Alexander Christie-Miller

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October 2015

At around midday on 19 July, Koray Türkay boarded a bus in Istanbul and set off for the Syrian...

 

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