Essay Online 1/3 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 2/3 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 3/3 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.
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?
Poetry The Ecstasy issue Love By Margaret Ross “I wrote on a scrap of paper in my wallet / he’s just a person / so I could read it / later, when I was home.”
Art The Ecstasy issue The Art of Kudzanai-Violet Hwami By Kudzanai-Violet Hwami The writer Tiana Reid discovers “a full-body high” in the paintings of Kudzanai-Violet Hwami.
Comic The Ecstasy issue Rites of Spring By Maria Medem Spring is here, and so are its strange rituals.
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Fiction The Ecstasy issue In Paris, My Asian Body By Lin Yu-Hsuan Who decides whose bodies are beautiful?
Essay Online Embarrassing Fashion By Cal Revely-Calder What happens when an artist goes too far? Cal Revely-Calder can’t look away from the designer John Galliano’s melodramatic, and sometimes obscene, choices.
Poetry The Ecstasy issue From “Distant Transit” By Maja Haderlap “i, too, have emerged repeatedly / as a translation of myself, / transferred and rewritten / i appear in a new transcription / although in a similar form.”
Essay Online Daydreaming in Progress By Leslie Jamison An overflowing “Daydream Dossier” and a clarifying exercise with index cards — how Leslie Jamison wrote “Dreamers in Broad Daylight” for the Ecstasy issue.
Book Review Online The Future Is Canceled By Izidora Angel The urgent and unsubtle horror of Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is that the present is grayed out, that there’s more past than future.
Poetry The Ecstasy issue Four Poems By Rachel Mannheimer “People say that poets love the moon, / but I got into poetry because I liked words and small things / and lacked the imagination for fiction.”
Criticism Online Art Criticism That Pauses To Breastfeed By Nikki Shaner-Bradford In recent books by Jazmina Barrera and Kate Zambreno, each study of pregnancy becomes an embedded study of the life of the writer.
Fiction The Ecstasy issue Drip By Ama Asantewa Diaka “I wonder if the act of touching yourself in open spaces constitutes waywardness, or something completely abominable.”
Essay Online My Best Friend Is a Fish By Steven Duong Can a fish be a friend, a roommate, a very good dog? Steven Duong gazes at his pet betta fish, Chrissy, and sees limitless possibilities.
Poetry The Ecstasy issue From “Without Which” By Solmaz Sharif “I have long loved what one can carry. / I have long left all that can be left / behind in the burning cities and lost”
Book Review Online Concrete Reveries By Adam Dalva Hernan Diaz is making a career out of taking on some of the biggest archetypal American novels—the Western, and now the Wealth Novel.
Essay Online On the Road to Bendigo By Gerald Murnane As a child, Gerald Murnane was enamored with scenery in film and in life — “the places safely behind the action.” Later he found a kindred spirit in the wayward eye of Kerouac’s On the Road.
Essay The Ecstasy issue Den By Helena Fagertun Swedish Translator Helena Fagertun responds to Kate Zambreno’s experimental essay “Sublet.”
Essay The Ecstasy issue Sublet By Kate Zambreno The author considers subletting her apartment to her Swedish translator. What does it mean to invite someone to live inside your home, when they have already lived inside your writing?
Essay Online On Nice Men By Leïla Slimani The author considers why being a “nice man” is not enough. We need a revolution in which what it means to be a man is entirely transformed.
Poetry The Ecstasy issue Three Yards By Jos Charles “The sun fell low so the hour had something to name.”
