Essay Online God Was Good By Paul McAdory Religious affiliation can be a potent brand modifier for emerging creatives while providing fringe benefits like meaning.
Essay Online A Different Way of Being Dutch By Emma Rault Alienated by the Dutch canon, the writer and translator Emma Rault found solace and kinship in the gay poet Hans Lodeizen (1924-1950).
Essay Online Search History By Kevin Chen My browser history this week has been all about the USA, and cute shirts.
Essay Online Department Store as Dreamscape By Adrienne Raphel In The Price of Salt, Therese describes the department store as a “prison,” but it also serves as a locus for imagination and liberation.
Essay Online My Weekend With the Martians By Ruby Sutton At the Assembly, a conference of Urbit denizens, Ruby Sutton discovers a community of eccentrics who dare to dream of a different internet.
Essay Online Search History By Billy-Ray Belcourt What does a twenty-something queer Indigenous man search on the internet? The question sounds threateningly anthropological.
Essay The Filth issue The Dirt on Pig-Pen By Elif Batuman Pig-Pen was dirty — visibly so... That’s who and how he was. And yet — what was that dirtiness? Was it essential or incidental? How did it work?
Essay The Filth issue The White Dress By Clarice Lispector I know some people find me dangerous, they’ve even said as much. But I am also innocent.
Essay The Filth issue The Kitchen Sink By Sheila Heti Maybe I’m so filthy I can’t even see it, like light can’t see light, or like darkness can’t identify darkness.
Essay The Filth issue We Were Hungry By Chris Dennis McDonald’s — when my sister and I were homeless and addicted to methamphetamines and difficult to love, you let us in. Or rather your employees let us in.
Essay The Filth issue The Monster By Madame Nielsen The original Danish version of Madame Nielsen’s story “The Monster,” which appears in the Filth issue.
Essay The Filth issue The Monster By Madame Nielsen The two actors or disciples or angels or monsters or slightly built blond human creatures straightened up and vanished.
Essay Online Search History By Vanessa A. Bee I want to make my browser history widely available to all my potential friends and lovers.
Essay Online The Loneliness of Sinéad O’Connor By Hilary Plum I want to learn to be lonely together, lonely for one another.
Essay Online Emails Are Forever By Hannah Gold Wading through Chris Kraus’s archive of 74,164 emails, Hannah Gold considers the different rewards of digital versus physical archives.
Essay Online Grace By K-Ming Chang Her leotard was elaborately patterned with sweat. With my fist in my mouth, I pledged my loyalty to her polyester.
Essay Online Listening to Ghosts By Lauren Elkin Hilary Mantel was a master at unearthing the buried and invisible. She knew to listen to ghosts, past and present.
Essay Online Feels Like Fate By Emma Garman What does it mean when a novelist’s fiction later becomes reality? Is it manifestation or premonition?
