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A picture of Clay AD's book, Metabolize if Able, on a background of blue-lit white pills. The book cover is light blue with dark blue outlines of two faces looking at one another.

Sickos Against Iatro-Capitalism

Sophie Lewis reviews Clay AD’s debut novel, Metabolize, If Able.

This is a detail shot photo of someone’s wrist, their skin a color like milky coffee, and just barely visible on their inner wrist is a faded stamp, like the kind one may get as they enter a party or club they’ve paid entrance for.

reassembling histories by putting them into bodies that dance (rework) *

I never felt the impact of ideas and theories expressed about music. I feel that they are a kind of intellectual punishment to music for being so accessible in an epidermal, sensory way.

A three panel image of a window. The left and right panels feature a white edge of a window with a black outside with eyes looking back at the viewer, while the middle panel has a yellow sun cut off at the middle. This image is a crop of the larger image by Candice Purwin, below.

French Cinema and Me: A Tale of Two Summers

I used to live for summer. The other seasons formed one long purgatory to be endured in anticipation of the moment when I could finally flourish under the blazing sun of foreign lands.

A black and white image of two people pressing their feet together with their lower legs bent to the right and left sides of the frame. They are on a hardwood floor.

Sacha Vega – A Visual Interview

Sacha Vega is an American artist creating at the intersection of photography, installation art, and writing, based in the Greater New York area. Through her practice, she “advises the viewer…

A horizontal image of a teal, pink, and light blue patterned abstract image with some abstract, fingerprint-like elements.

For Three Voices

for three voices is an eclectic score for a sonic/olfactory performance with three voices. the original score—which you find in the body of text below—included the refrain’s scent (spirit, rosewater,…

A slightly desaturated close-up image of a rocky outcropping with many candles in reds, pastels, and whites, some textured and some not. Some of the the candles are burnt and wax has spread. Behind them, a small circular mirror in an ornate brass frame is visible, and small flat stones are arranged around the candles. A bone resembling a human femur is visible on the left side of the frame on a ceremonial plate, and natural green foliage is visible in the background.

Excerpts from Plague’s Embrace

She was shivering like a baby unwrapped in the wind, adrenaline and espresso in her sweat. I wasn’t allowed fear until later — one price of her devotion.