Essay Online 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 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.
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 A Cannes Party Report Sans Party By Ruby Sutton A writer signs up for “Trois jours à Cannes,” a festival pass for young cinephiles, hoping to break into the heart of the film world, or at least the parties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
