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  "path": "/issues/2026-4-11/he-read-she-read",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://airmail.news",
  "tags": [
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    "READ ON"
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  "textContent": "\n\n  Gary Cooper, on the set of _A Farewell to Arms,_ reading the Hemingway novel that inspired the film.\n\n##### Are there such things as “girl books” and “boy books”?\n\nBy Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz\n\nIt’s an image that has been mocked and satirized incessantly on the Internet: a mustachioed, twentysomething man on the subway pulls out his book _,_ cracks open the creaseless spine, and stares intently down at the page, one hand pensively tapping his chin—the very picture of erudition. You catch a glimpse of the cover—it’s _The Sun Also Rises._ (If you’re unlucky enough to go on a date with this man, he may ask if you’ve heard of it.)\n\nBut it’s a phenomenon that goes far beyond just the Performative Bro. It’s the Lit Girl from your liberal-arts college who READ ON",
  "title": "He Read, She Read"
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