A suicidal crow (or is it a seagull?) — the most salacious therapy circle — leaving the dinner date — meeting Petra. In short: four stories.
All Back Pages
Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique
A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk
The issue resides not in whether techniques are used, but in how deeply they are developed.
Bored Women
The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature
Our critic explores the disinterest and detachment that surfaces in some of her favorite books by women.
Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
These are the stories – full of heartache and business intrigue – of the starlets who captured Egypt's heart as it entered the age of mass media.
The Importance of Being Hermes
The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde
Surely we all know Oscar Wilde. Aesthete, dilettante, artist, flaneur...and occult practitioner? The untold, esoteric story.
Steamroomography
An annotated guide to gay cruising in New York City steam rooms
Men have had sex with each other in public spaces since time immemorial. This sensual essay explores how they've done so in New York, from personal experience.
From Issue 3
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
