Book Review Online 1/3 Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes By Rosemarie Ho A young woman in Tokyo fakes a pregnancy in order to mess with her male coworkers. Will her scheme have meaningful effect?
Poetry Online 2/3 Punchline By Isle McElroy I’m tired of paying two hundred dollars a week to repeat the name of the woman who raped me.
Fiction The Ecstasy issue 3/3 A Lamb Himself By Ottessa Moshfegh “All Marek really wanted at this age was to go to heaven, where God and his mother would love him.”
Essay Online Pain Is the Point By Davey Davis Cheers and lusty wolf whistles at a screening of Michelle Handelman’s seminal documentary BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism.
Fiction The Ecstasy issue House Party By Katharina Volckmer “It’s too early to talk about broken hearts. The plural seems like an exaggeration. Even I know that the hearts of the deluded suffer on their own.”
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Essay Online Seduce Me! By RL Goldberg Attending the Italian stage adaptation of Katharina Volckmer’s The Appointment, reveling in misunderstanding.
Essay Online Pic of My Organs from the Inside By Andrea Abreu My last romantic gesture after five years together. Now I’m going to find out what it means to be alone.
Comic & Essay Online Backstage in the City By Gabriel Matesanz Biking can offer a unique view into a city’s infrastructure — its shortcomings and charms.
Essay Online Airport Code By Khalid El Khatib Is it ridiculous to say I miss the old LaGuardia? The pigeons in the arrival hall, the absence of light, the garbled intercom.
Essay Online Hahahaha By Emma Goldberg It feels like our correspondence is becoming increasingly informal. What will our grandkids think of our group texts?
Criticism Online Style Is on the Inside By Lily Meyer Is there such thing as style for translators? Lily Meyer looks at three different novels with the same translator to find out.
Art & Essay Online I Will Remember Larry Stanton By Katharina Volckmer Larry Stanton, who died from AIDS in 1984, immortalized himself and his contemporaries through portraiture.
Comic Online Are You Still There? By Jordan Crane An excerpt from the graphic novel Keeping Two about the empty places where a loved one used to be.
Essay Online For That One Moment By Mieko Kawakami In life and in fiction, Mieko Kawakami attempts to create memories that are as vivid as real life.
Fiction Online The Vivisectors (i) By Missouri Williams She had gotten a finger and a thumb in each ring opening and curved them back in, nails against the hymen, and started pinching and tearing.
Criticism Online The Stars Say You’re Special By Daniel Spielberger A recent novel by Anna Dorn situates astrology within a zeitgeist that constantly dangles simulations for escape.
Essay Online Search History By Jem Calder I see it in myself and the people around me that almost all internet usage is, at this point, purely compulsive.
Comic Online Show Me Everything By Lee Lai As a child, Lee Lai resented stories and art that only offered a rosy view of the world. Picture books by Shaun Tan offered a more daring, honest vision.
Comic Online Cracked Open By Tommi Parrish When you live far away, sometimes it can seem like the people you love are aging in fast-forward.
Book Review Online Something Like Vellum By Noor Qasim Zain Khalid’s debut novel wrestles with the urge to shatter the coherent world and examine its parts, and the desire to reconcile reality to narrative.
Comic Online I Was Here By Kaitlin Chan In the work of the artist On Kawara, Kaitlin Chan sees her struggles with staying alive laid bare.
Memoir Online I’ve Brought Someone to Meet You By Seán Hewitt “And then there he was, like a ghost, smiling at me from under the clear solution.”
Criticism Online Heterosexual Vortex By Crispin Long Watching the contestants on Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight, Crispin Long sees a glimmer of a past self.
