Mishima meets Mapplethorpe—that's one way of describing the erotic, often violent, gay manga of Gengoroh Tagame. Which, thanks to book designer Chip Kidd, is proving to be an unlikely sensation with North American manga nerds. Hazlitt talks to Kidd and the artist himself.
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Morgentaler, who died yesterday at the age of 90, weathered a lifetime of attacks for his role in providing safe and accessible abortions for Canadian women. He was a flawed man, too—a reminder that our heroes need not necessarily be saints.
While analysts—like Nick Carraway's, in Baz Luhrmann's Freudian-friendly adaptation of The Great Gatsby—would have us eliminate our unmeetable desires, they miss the point: delusion is the stuff of life.
The wedding chamber at Toronto's city hall is located on the third floor and is available to rent in thirty-minute intervals. The author witnessed the marriage described below, although the names have been changed and minor details compressed. This week: a missing ring and its replacement.
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