Longreads

The Desiring Self

I have begun to obsess about this one kiss. A kiss. What the hell difference would a kiss make?

The Strange Life of the Modlins

The world left their art behind, until a young man found a series of photographs blowing along a street in Spain.

City of the Mute

To visit Drancy is to confront dark and unsettled questions of who is remembered, who is heard, who can speak, and why.

Magic Eraser Juice

Driving an ambulance in an opioid-torn city in the age of Narcan.

The Swimming Pool Library

This summer, I assigned myself the task of swimming home, moving through the neighborhoods and communities that, side by side, would bring me back to myself.

Searching for Duke

After years of whispers in her Polish community, Anna finally learned the truth about her father. And then she decided to go to Sri Lanka to find him.

The Queer Appetites of Ismail Merchant

The late film producer's cookbooks reveal a subtle, coded queer sensibility.

Women Between the Wars

In Jean Rhys's novels, women exhibit a particular kind of English suffering, a perfect illustration of the female condition in the interwar years.

Good Faith

How queer BDSM and sex work helped me to refuse an inheritance of indoctrination.

In Search of Absence in Antarctica

It’s not that I divide my life into the periods before and after I went, exactly. It’s more that the trip accelerated a gradual change that has been happening all my life.