Tracing Ana
...apartment window under what can only be referred to as suspicious circumstances. Her husband, heralded artist Carl Andre, was tried and ultimately acquitted of murder, earning him a new sobriquet:...
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
...but mostly because she’d already tried on the vixen persona in her earlier years and found it wanting (Poison Ivy, anyone?). So, sure, she’s a woman’s woman. I recalled this...
Dark Pages
...depraved monster; or 3) the diaries are authentic, but Casement’s public deeds outweigh his private indiscretions. (This last position was taken, among others, by Peter Singleton-Gates, who tried to publish...
Queer, Interrupted
...New York City, and a now-ritualized street-party-turned-riot in Seattle called Queers Fucking Queers. But more than specific actions and attacks, Bash Back! developed a culture of queerness that refused constraint...
The Last Witch Hunter
...the two halves of his personality, the devout and the unconventional. These impulses had once been distinctly at odds, but as the landscape around him changed, and modern culture began...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
Our Man in Great Neck
...book by Henry Kissinger, another wanted a photography book. As people came out, they brought the requests of refuseniks who were still there, and we tried to follow through. So...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Celluloid Coven
...I just watched how the blood coagulated in the water. It became something decidedly non-cinematic. But we sat on that trampoline and we tried to create a ritual that would...
The Mirror-Slave Dialectic
...on me and who looks to me for affirmation of his language skills; 2) having drinks with someone who talked over every word I tried to utter; 3) meeting with...
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
Kjerstin Gruys, Ph.D. sociology student, Bay Area
...how our culture kind of shaped my experience. Having an eating disorder, you’re always aware of your own body image, but it’s not until you’re recovering that you’re really forced...
Boardwalk YOLO and ASMR videos
...then while I am at it, I resent their music and their fashion and their Facebook pages and everything else.) People now enjoy an experiential privacy that's anchored to their...
Media and Consumer Desire
...attention on the objects which formed part of its decor. The lingering closeups, the use of music to emphasize mood, the employment of objects and sets as significant aspects of...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...rooms on the first floor into a music room, another into a library. The largest room they made into a dining room that could accommodate 60 people. “It is the...
The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...