by Simone Zapata | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Room for Error: On Printmaking and the Limits of the Body At a printmaking studio in Miami, Florida, I lay out dozens of CT scans across my workstation. I’ve enlarged them to a life-size representation of an adult torso, and the pixelated boundary between mass and...
by Evelyn Reidy | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Anne Boleyn in the Manosphere: What Ava Pickett’s hot new period piece can teach us about misogyny’s past and present On April 26, 2025, just over one week before Ava Pickett’s 1536 premiered for its sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre in London, 38-year-old Owen...
by Holly Zhou | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Andrea Long Chu’s Females, Revised IN THE 2025 reissue of Females, first published in 2019, Andrea Long Chu revises her former self. Chu observes in the newly added afterword that most books published by trans authors, then and now, are memoirs. Empirically, it seems...
by Ian Mahanpour | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Echoes of the Fourth Person: A Dilemma of Sociality in Electronic Music ONE PERSON is never enough. Buzzing away on my bassoon in a practice room or listening to The Strokes through a dime-sized speaker lodged in my ear are not typically lauded as the pinnacle of...
by Jackson Ribler | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Monogamy is Dead, Long Live Monogamy! When I was a teenager, my mother died. A few years later, my father remarried. I now have the language to describe grief as an encounter with what could have been and cannot be, one in which we negotiate with imagined futures...
by Adrian Mendoza | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
On Body Horror I WALK INTO a job interview with my mind divided between answering the questions and keeping my tics at bay. I tell my body to sit still and relax my face into a soft, hirable smile. In response, my knee bounces, my hands flex, and my brow furrows. I...
