Stephen Akey is a memoirist and essayist who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Raccoon Love, Culture Fever, Library, and College. His essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Republic, the Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere.
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Let's Not Get It On
Revisiting Marvin Gaye’s lurid masterpiece Here, My Dear, and the darker side of romance.
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You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific shows the limits–and power–of mainstream entertainment in addressing weighty social topics.
