Essay Online 1/3 Writers Around the World Respond to America’s Abortion Ruling By Astra Magazine International authors Mariana Enriquez, Mieko Kawakami, Leila Slimani, Katharina Volckmer, and Pola Oloixarac respond to America overturning Roe v. Wade
Essay Online 2/3 Marseille to Berlin in Twelve Hours By Madeleine Watts On the train from Marseille to Berlin, expect to find exasperated teen boys, time to read and get lost in memories, and a long line for the bar car.
Poetry The Ecstasy issue 3/3 Border Walls By Forough Farrokhzad “Now, again, in the silent night / barrier walls, border walls / grow tall like plants.”
Criticism Online Daddy’s Issues By Katherine Angel When scrutinizing the father-daughter relationship, we rush to pathologize the daughter for her “Daddy Issues,” but what of the father’s “Daughter Issues”?
Comic The Ecstasy issue Inside The House By Nicole Claveloux A short strip from a cult underground French cartoonist.
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Book Review Online Scars or Wings By Leah Silvieus In Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, the reviewer finds a novel brushing up against the limits of its form.
Criticism Online Wish Fulfillment on Fire Island By Christopher Gonzalez Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island satirizes the toxic hierarchies in the gay community, but does it go far enough?
Book Review Online Profoundly Out of Joint By Chelsea Leu Thuận’s Chinatown is sad, delightfully prickly, and a defiantly inscrutable act of resistance that insists that we make space for the things that don’t make sense.
Essay Online Search History By Jordan Castro I wanted to make a meme about how, after the release of The Novelist, Barnes & Noble would be like the Capitol on January 6.
Essay Online Citrus Paradisi By Isobel Wohl The bittersweet grapefruit, with its origins in error and mistaken identity, can alert us to unexpected ways of being with ourselves and others.
Criticism Online The Artist’s Seven Minutes By Ariana Harwicz & Ariana Saenz Espinoza Joseph Ponthus and Imres Kertész are paragons of that rare breed of writer who can crystalize the beauty of life in the midst of mechanized death and horror.
Essay Online I’m Certain About “The Man Without Qualities” By Sophie Atkinson Decoding Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities felt impossible — until a poet in Vienna programmed a new version of the sprawling classic.
Essay Online Search History By Paul Dalla Rosa I click on links that lead to bootleg documentaries, Lady Gaga updates, and the ugliest clothes I have ever seen.
Book Review Online Between Knowing and Not Knowing By Ben Eastham The late-career style of painter Philip Guston, as seen through the eyes of a friend.
Essay Online If a House Can Be a Mother By Ella Baxter A novelist moves into a tumbledown Victorian terrace house. How do you make a home for yourself and your child, when the structure wants to spit you out?
Essay Online Dead or Alive By Paul McAdory I’ll never in my life excel at any sport, pastime, job, or art to the degree that I excelled at Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate on Microsoft’s original Xbox.
Book Review Online The Other Side of Faggotry By Bobuq Sayed In Paul Dalla Rosa’s story collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, Bobuq Sayed finds dramatic irony, alienation, and psychic depravity.
Book Review Online Vicious Vortext By Richard Hegelman In her second novel, Paradais, Fernanda Melchor returns to familiar, brutal subject matter, but narrows in on fewer characters. The result is claustrophobic and enthralling.
Essay Online The Tender Cubist By Julia Wong Kcomt Why must artistic traditions be siloed by region? Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt discovers a sublime exception in the Cubist paintings of Wifredo Lam.
Essay Online The Animal Within the Animal By Melissa Febos In solitude, like masturbation, the body opens — but if not to another, then to what?
Essay Online Fiona Apple Changes My Mind By Steven Pfau While many fans might consider Fiona Apple’s “Hot Knife” to be a lighthearted song, Steven Pfau finds it has a trenchant core.
Book Review Online Two Sides of the Same Coin By Julia Sanches In Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translating Myself and Others, Julia Sanches finds a writer more interested in introspection than dialogue.
Fiction The Ecstasy issue In Paris, My Asian Body By Lin Yu-Hsuan Who decides whose bodies are beautiful?
