Longreads

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.

How Canada Fell in Love with the Stanley Cup

From fans to telegraph operators to a troupe of determined players from the Klondike, here's how Stanley Cup Fever spread across the country.

I Could Live Without Speaking

A Self-Portrait, Experiment, and Homage.

There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This

Bob Fosse's current revival makes sense, but the wave of appreciation will also be a reckoning: moral immunity has been rescinded for geniuses.

When Mountains Were Ugly

Over the centuries, the mountains moved. Our inner landscapes shifted to accommodate new forms of beauty, old forms of worship.

The Disneyland of Death

Described as a theme park necropolis, Forest Lawn Cemetery created a new template for posthumous culture in North America.