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Late in her 2017 memoir, “Priestdaddy,” Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up in a world of “male systems and male anger,” a world that began at home with the actions of her father, a bombastic, ...

Every so often I like to check back in with my past reading self as a way to gauge who I was then versus who I am now. We all change as we grow older, right? For example, when I was four years old, I ...

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How capacious can the novel be? Lockwood asks. Frequently she refuses to fill in the blanks, asking the reader to figure out the punch line. “Something about children,” “Something about the Property ...