
The Chatner
A newsletter about rejiggered literary classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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City Slickers is a Reverse Cain and AbelPreviously in Cain and Abel coverage: “If Cain asks me to go anywhere with him, I won’t ask questions. I’ll just hold his hand and go!” The story of Cain and Abel is the story of the first murder, of the early rupture between settled farmers and nomadic pastoralists, establishes…