Interview Online 1/3 Celia Paul: Up from the Burning Bracken By Makenna Goodman A conversation with the painter and author Celia Paul on choosing a life and artistic practice of great intensity.
Essay Online 2/3 Feels Like Fate By Emma Garman What does it mean when a novelist’s fiction later becomes reality? Is it manifestation or premonition?
Fiction The Ecstasy issue 3/3 Wisteria By Mieko Kawakami “Seeing the foreign teacher laugh makes Wisteria laugh, but after a while she becomes aware of emotions she has never known before.”
Essay Online The Perilous Realm By Sabrina Orah Mark The fire inspector must determine the cause of the fire that burned Sabrina Orah Mark’s house down. She doesn’t tell him about the fairy tales.
Issue OneEcstasy Terrance Hayes Leslie Jamison Mieko Kawakami Kim Hyesoon Catherine Lacey Fernanda Melchor Ottessa Moshfegh Sayaka Murata Dorthe Nors Solmaz Sharif Katharina Volckmer And more… View issue
Essay Online Search History By Hua Hsu I am very susceptible to internet rabbit holes and free-associative dives.
Book Review Online How She Sees Herself By Mariah Kreutter Like so many famous diaries, Annie Ernaux’s diary Getting Lost can be both titillating and tiresome. But her clarity of vision and confidence are distinctive.
Essay Online An Amorphous and Arsonous Body By Joshua Cohen "I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole,” this indefinable, unassimilable Spanish-Jewish, Ottoman-Balkan, Viennese, British, Swiss world citizen wrote in one of his Aufzeichnungen.
Essay Online Three or Four Things I Know About Godard By Joanna Walsh Shedding tears for Jean-Luc Godard, the elusive and unknowable filmmaker who always told the truth.
Criticism Online Enter the Tang Chat By Noah Warren Reviewing poems from the Tang Dynasty alongside Xi Chuan’s collection Bloom, Noah Warren encounters two projects that view poetry as a refuge of value and solace in times of upheaval.
Essay Online Heterossexualidade Alternativa By Clara Drummond A autora é como o Mowgli: uma garota hetero que foi criada na comunidade queer que não sabe como se comportar na presença de outros heterossexuais.
Essay Online Escape Heteropessimism By Clara Drummond The author wants you to know that she’s not a straight woman, she’s a gay man.
Essay Online I Do Not Keep a Diary By Will Rees But I plan to become a committed diarist any day now. Every preparation is in place and it only remains for me to begin.
Criticism Online Five Personas in an Orgy By Zack Graham David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future is the culmination of a rich and varied career. It’s also full of sexy alien surgery and strange, koan-like language.
Book Review Online Dreaming in America By Bruna Dantas Lobato In Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage, Bruna Dantas Lobato finds charm and dry humor underpinning an exploration of foreignness and the immigrant experience.
Essay Online Oral History By Yiyun Li It was the first time I had seen bitter contempt for the world in a child’s face. I was transfixed.
Essay & Art Online The People’s Beach By Kyle Carrero Lopez A tribute to Jacob Riis Beach, a haven for queer and trans people in New York City.
Fiction Online Nothing About Love By Roskva Koritzinsky She lied with her body and hoped that one day the lie would spread to her brain like a bacterial infection in a hot and humid climate.
Book Review Online The Only Film Critic of Real Value in France By Jeffrey West Kirkwood Admiring Serge Daney’s commitment to the subtle mechanics of cinema, Jeffrey West Kirkwood speculates that the critic would hate the A24 industrial complex.
Essay Online Tell Me Who I Am By R.E. Hawley What is the worth of a psychiatric diagnosis? Does it constrain or unlock understanding?
Interview Online Édouard Louis and Tash Aw: An Autopsy of Society By Spencer Quong What becomes possible when you collaborate with a close friend? Louis and Aw reflect on bringing A Woman’s Battles and Transformations into English.
Book Review Online Badly Chosen Lovers By Madelaine Lucas In Rosemary Tonks’s The Bloater, London’s Swinging Sixties roar back to life through razor-sharp dialogue and a poet’s sensitivity to language.
Essay Online Search History By Cat Zhang Doing serious emotional homework (reading Adrienne Rich) and enjoying memes (“Charli XCX Himalayas fancam”).
