Miranda Popkey

Miranda Popkey lives in Massachusetts. Her first novel, Topics of Conversation, will be published by Knopf in 2020. (July 2019)

Pandemic Journal

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams in Brooklyn, Sara Nović in Philadelphia, Gavin Francis in Edinburgh, and more.

May 15, 2020

The Incendiary Sexual Politics of ‘Burn This’

Lanford Wilson’s 1987 play Burn This, currently in revival at the Hudson Theatre, as in many a more traditional American love story, male force is the prelude, perhaps even the key, to female seduction.

July 13, 2019

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