Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us
...no coincidence, then, that its supporters are also among the key investors in life-extension and anti-aging initiatives, with Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs like Amazon’s Jeff...
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
...page or in physical space? Kristen: It’s a mix. I think you [Andrew] usually start with drawing. I usually start with the material. Although you...
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
...going on. It developed, however, into the short film Val and the book Making Of (both completed in 2023). The slim 64-page autofiction text published...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...linked to decisions made in Switzerland.” Aesthetically, Guerreiro cites Brazilian carnival culture as a driving reference point (alongside video games). But he also clocks the...
The gospel of Schiaparelli according to Creative Director Daniel Roseberry and his mom, Fran
...give these public speeches, but then I’d cultivate my own world on the page. Mom letting me be a part of both things is definitive...
Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
...2.0. Taking a page from Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi epic Snow Crash, in which users co-build a virtual world that runs seamlessly alongside the real thing,...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...date a trans woman named Rachel Humphreys before tossing her aside, an all-too-common trend of the time.) He also wrote “Candy Says,” the sad tranny...
Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge
On December 17, 2017, the front page of The New York Times read “Real UFOs? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.” Its results: inconclusive. But this...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...we have this in common; we feel we are one link in the chain. Another thing we have in common is we feel like everywhere...
Fine Print: Like letting the world read your diary
...the page, the self, the future. Who, in the end, is the audience? If you’re a notable figure—writers and artists included—the audience may wind up...
In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous
...work on the page as a kind of montage, they don’t usually contain narrative information themselves. They’re photos of signs, cooking, lichen, which aren’t necessarily...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...the nature of the Umbria region, which is known as the “green lung” of Italy. The company’s values are deeply linked with history, culture, and...
‘Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines’ memorializes a forgotten archive
...of the experience, finding that one page corner or half-hidden image that speaks to you in a strange but somehow familiar language. Oddly missing from...
The singular vision of Otti Berger
...every page of Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture, an ample volume of essays and images newly compiled by the German art book publisher Hatje...
‘No Judgment’ with Lauren Oyler
...the best reading experiences of my life with Péter Nádas’s A Book of Memories from 1986—another Berlin story, partially, and every page is just amazing.”...
Illuminations by the roadside: Russell Sharon’s watercolor ‘Wildflowers’
...the abstract style he was known for at the time. They’re clear, direct, about the size of an A4 page, and arranged along one wall...
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
...dimensions of a fashion glossy, not a lit journal. Every page is full color. The typefaces are non-traditional and sometimes illegible, though I don’t know...
The life and death of online platforms
...turn on social media “enshittification,” The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka termed it “the flattening,” The New York Times’s Jon Caramanica described TikTok’s For You Page...
Can Botox help you live longer?
...treatments such as hormonal imbalance tests and fertility screenings are considered as essential to “wellness” as are services for Botox injections. The link between physical...
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
...a link that sounded compelling. Three paragraphs in, a pit welled in my stomach. There I was: post-party, coked out, foolish, and, of course, 22....
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
...an experimental or home movie? Hugo: It is my first. I’ve written a bunch of short narratives for music videos that didn’t turn into anything....
Kaur Alia Ahmed crafts poetry in three dimensions with ‘sky, harp’
...language asserts itself, in part through this sonic aspect, as well as through how you work with it visually on and off the page. I’m...
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
We were given white roses before we descended. People filed in, slowly. The lights dimmed and the title card came up without introduction: Lemon Tree,...
Lauren Elkin’s ‘Art Monsters’ thrives in the messy
...your process? Lauren: I’m always interested in space on the page. I think Sebald’s work, for instance, looks very beautiful on the page; It’s just...
For London’s newest class of designers, performance and wearability go hand in hand
...full stomach and fresh inspiration. Whether I’m sat on the bus or doing a food shop, I am constantly examining the world, seeing how I...
A guide to the discomfiting films of Todd Haynes
...the front page of newspapers. His latest film May-December innovates on this throughline in a dress shop fitting room mirror: Disgraced matriarch Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne...
Resisting simulations of the self
...make both public and private simulations of the “self” on various platforms. I have my “professional” profile on LinkedIn as a professor. I have my...
Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation
...and they nixed that. But about a month ago or so, New Directions republished that Francisco by Alison Mills, and it made the front page...
Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington work between the folds of familiar and imaginative belonging
...how you perform this aspiration. Sumayya: Aspiration is about manifesting forms of imagination that link back to myths from different landscapes. But they also are...
It’s Emma Rogue’s world
...as a buzzy Depop page eventually made it to Instagram, and then to the Bowery, with a brick and mortar thrift shop turning heads across...
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker
...Drucker knows the line that must be toed, pitting the paradigmatic against the three-dimensional subject. Self-narrativizing is inextricably linked to the documentarian’s process, most recently...
The next wave of indie publishing
...a particular New York crowd. The target of both ire and admiration from mainstream media, The Drunken Canal—which counted Dean Kissick, Caroline Calloway, Cat Marnell,...
In ‘Love Me Again,’ Michella Bredahl portraits femininity
...complained about me afterward. Later, the picture appeared on the front page of a magazine without my approval. This was customary. I was mostly photographed...
le PÈRE’s flagship store feels more like a studio
...PÈRE jumps off the page. For le PÈRE’s flagship store, CEO and Founder Ryan Wright sought something that felt more like a community space than...
Greer Lankton’s sketchbook diagrams the construction of a self
...a record as it is the physical manifestation of a process. Past versions are overwritten in the immediacy of a page’s turn. A diary is...
For Romy and Charlotte Wells, joy and grief are inextricable
...you deeply respect and admire? Romy Madley Croft: [Laughs] Yeah, what if I was secretly horrible? When I got sent the link to watch Aftersun,...
slowdive finds substance in sound
...remember how it felt. And I’m glad I don’t feel that way anymore. Simon Scott: I think they all just really like Rachel—she’s like a...
Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’
...environments, the detail selection in your writing. I find there to be something very touchable about your writing. Details feel like they can be carried...
The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction
...linking and unlinking—a repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis. As characters speak, consensus forms and is broken; ideas are rebuffed, solidified, re-wrought. Each story, each pair, each...
Mastercard’s policies are a danger to sex workers, and your freedom of speech
...of an already vulnerable community by limiting both their access to financial institutions and their freedom of speech. In a 46-page document, the ACLU—backed by...
‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy
...The second film from director Emma Seligman, Bottoms follows two lesbian best friends at the bottom of the high school food chain: The bold, bossy...
‘An Indigenous Present’ is the the bedrock of its own conversation
...An Indigenous Present, manifesting the project’s mission to marry concept, form, and medium as well as connection, influence, and conversation. Around the 250-page mark, Gibson...
Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her
...door.) The lost girl is mute and lives mostly off the page; under no circumstance should her consciousness enter the text. She is a subject...
TikTok’s “mind-reading” algorithm is about to change
...compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This new policy will allow EU users to trade their personalized “For You” page for a chronological feed...
A preternatural attraction to cuteness
...The pop star’s lasting social impact is twofold: She taught an entire generation how to spell “bananas,” and became a cautionary tale on cultural appropriation...
Motherhood at the end of the world
...It creates this really direct link between Antarctica and us. Alex: You’re very generous in handing over narrative shape to your protagonists—they almost narrate the...
Edan Lepucki’s ‘Time’s Mouth’ is a supernatural labyrinth of past and present
...between historical research and the surreal, leading readers through a trippy, character-driven labyrinth. Time’s Mouth is a whopping 400-page behemoth, speaking to intergenerational trauma, the...
Candy Claws’s playlist for a road trip through the past
...human partner with a playfully psychedelic shimmer, as they venture through the Mesozoic Era. Bound by a shared love for Rachel Carson and natural history,...
In Tuscany, a sanctuary for Black queer artists
...cultivating an active writing practice, I’ve learned the discipline it takes to face yourself and the world on the page,” she says. “What I’m not...
