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The Rejection Lab

What can researching human responses to rejection tell us about ourselves?

OOne spring day on Long Island, I perused hundreds of photos of single, dateable men on a computer. One man had a thick, black mane — he was a stylist in Manhattan’s Koreatown — and was hugging a smiley pug. Did I like him? Awww: I clicked Very Likely Yes. One man was a banker: Definitely No: sorry, bankers…

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A new magazine from Roxane Gay offering some of the most interesting and thoughtful cultural criticism to be found on the Web. Our first quarterly is coming in June 2019. We value deep explorations, timelessness, and challenging conventional thinking without being cheap and lazy.

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Alison Kinney

AVIDLY READS OPERA (NYU Press Oct 2021) and HOOD (Bloomsbury 2016). Words @ Paris Review Daily, TNY, NYT, Lapham’s Quarterly, Longreads, The Guardian, VAN