Readings

The Baudy, Electric

A great heaving portion of pleasure comes from the mystery of sex. No wonder humans most often use metaphors to talk about fucking. 

'The Next Portugal Will Be a Different One': An Interview with Miguel Gomes

The director of Arabian Nights on Godard as the master of clash, "artisanal blockbusters," and why cinema is like electricity. 

Bleeding Out the Jinn

Marginalized, ignored, oppressed—many here are broken. The rest are trying desperately not to break.

'The Trick is to Think of Someone From the Inside Out': An Interview with Jesse Eisenberg

The actor and writer joins us on the telephone from his Great Aunt Doris's home in Murray Hill. 

Thicker Than Water

I should know how to pinpoint emotional vampires: experts watching from armchairs would conclude that the first one I encountered was my dad.

As Women Scorned

We're supposed to follow a certain narrative when our partners leave us. What happens when we flip the playbook? 

The Year in Two Kinds of Failure

There is the failure to do what’s expected of me, and the failure to do what I expect of myself.

The Year in Being Orphaned

It's strange to have moments of gratitude for something that’s slowly ruining a person you love.

The Year in Absent Endings

The things we hope for in life—stability, moments of unexpected joy and recognition, the creation of a kind of legacy—are the same things many of us look for in what we read, and in what we write.