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American Beauty February 17, 2025
Last Sunday in the early afternoon, no one at St. Patrick’s had taken off their coat, even indoors, as it hadn’t been above freezing in Manhattan in a week....
The Valentine's Day Erotic Economy February 14, 2025
I learned in the booklet in my recent Tokyo Treat box that Valentine’s Day in Japan is traditionally celebrated almost exclusively by women gifting chocolate to men. Most all other customs and gifts of the United States — date nights, flowers, cards ...
From Mishima to Mangione February 13, 2025
The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who lived from 1925 to 1970, styled himself as an “aesthetic terrorist,” and carried out one actual act of terror in 1970, leading a far-right coup against the Japanese government. When the coup failed, he committed...
