### The Audacity.

Roxane Gay

Writer, editor, cultural critic. I'm a fan of baby elephants, but really, who isn't?

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**[One Creature Devouring Another](https://audacity.substack.com/p/one-creature-devouring-another-june)**  
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**[John of John: Patriarchal Matters](https://audacity.substack.com/p/john-of-john-patriarchal-matters)**  
Douglas Stuart creates such compelling characters and has a keen understanding of place. As you come to the end of the novel, what are you thinking and feeling about this story? In what ways do both Johns benefit and suffer from patriarchy? How do these men treat (and think about) the women in their lives? In what ways do the women in this novel assert …