Roxane Gay Is Not Sorry

Winter, 2019

Getting to know one of our most important and accessible cultural commentators—a woman who can call out rape culture and sing the praises of Law & Order: SVU in a single op-edSitting on an Eames-style bar stool next to a white marble kitchen island in her Los Angeles home, Roxane Gay swipes through a music app, searching for something to set the mood and singing the praises of her in-house sound system. “Oh my God, it’s the world’s best speakers,” she says. Settling on Beyoncé’s Lemonade, she hi...