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The Exquisite Meekness of Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci's long, winding life and career contains moments of incredible vulnerability, upending American mythologies around failure and success. And…
Alexandra Molotkow
Oct 28, 2021
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On Arthur Russell and "Virtuous Art"
In the throes of a crush, other people can appear very distorted, which tends to feel like a violation, even if nobody else even knows or cares. There…
Alexandra Molotkow
Apr 29
22
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Pete Davidson, Public Muse
In the years since his romance with Ariana Grande — a narrative as captivating for its hopelessness as anything else — Pete Davidson has expanded from…
Alexandra Molotkow
Nov 4, 2021
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Introducing: Crush Material
Introducing Crush Material, a series about crushes and how best to love people we don't really know.
Alexandra Molotkow
Oct 26, 2021
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An Erotics of Hypochondria
Hypochondria and obsessive crushing are similar conditions: both are all-consuming, interpretive fevers, and both bear the stigma of being a lot about…
Alexandra Molotkow
Nov 18, 2021
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Elliott Gould, Dream Lover
About a decade ago, I realized that the faceless, anonymous man in my fantasies about men was not faceless or anonymous at all: he was Elliott Gould.
Alexandra Molotkow
Dec 29, 2021
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On the Noises of Neighbors
The relationships we form with neighbors we hear but can't see are crushlike. They also serve as a constant reminder that, even in isolation, one exists…
Alexandra Molotkow
Dec 2, 2021
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The Banal Intrigue of the "Unconventional Crush"
Whenever an "offbeat" hunk is named as such, people rush to dissect his appeal, though it's usually pretty obvious from the start. Nathan Fielder, who…
Alexandra Molotkow
Aug 4
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