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?
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.
Essay Online That Was Great By Jackson Arn Whether settling in for a superhero blockbuster or indie film, moviegoers often expect that the experience should be seamless. Jackson Arn makes the case for distraction at the theater.
Essay The Ecstasy issue Dreamers in Broad Daylight: Ten Conversations By Leslie Jamison Leslie Jamison considers why and how we daydream.
Essay Online Airport Code By Katharina Volckmer Airports can be unforgiving spaces: impersonal, overcrowded, and tyrannically stratified. Yet Katharina Volckmer finds some pleasure in transiting via Bremen Airport on trips home.
Essay The Ecstasy issue Wadden Sea Suite By Dorthe Nors A centuries-old matriarchal culture persists on the remote Danish island of Fanø.
Essay Online Men Talk to Me About Cars By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan “There is a peculiar doublethink required to travel alone as a young woman. You must expect that every straight-seeming man you meet wants to fuck you or kill you.”
Essay Online Material World By Priyanka Champaneri Is it possible to live a spiritual life and also enjoy material pleasures?
Essay Online I Wish I Could Stop Thinking About “Mr. Brightside” By James Frankie Thomas What if the 2003 hit song is sad and gay?
Essay Online Airport Code By Terrance Hayes A dispatch from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
