Reflections on chronic lovelessness and finding love in a crushing world.

Forging nature.

Girlhood, friendship, and precarity in a burning California.

Paintings that bring the queer rave home with them.

After two decades of experimental documentaries, the filmmaker’s debut feature bridges science fiction and noir.

A funny, unsettling coming-of-age story about maternal devotion, money, and self-invention.

Utilizing queer chronology to craft a documentary out of a groundbreaking artist’s deep archive.

From Freak Lip , a collection of essays on secrecy, shame, firsts, and the sentences that lodge inside the body.

The filmmaker’s latest draws from the Western genre, gangster films, and Bulgarian clubbing culture in the 1990s.

Poems, essays, and photographs of Gaza.

For this loving portrait of Barbara Hammer, the pioneer of lesbian experimental cinema, O’Connor “exhibits her own vision as she looks back toward her…

An avant-garde short inspired by a celebrity encounter in an elevator explores the porousness of identity.

A memoir about incarceration, exile, and writing against the limits of captivity.

Lineage, both creative and personal, comes up throughout the features in our fall issue. For a composer adapting Lincoln in the Bardo into an opera, a…

A retrospective layers information to tell stories and convey memories.

Sculpture and installation that play with patterns where they start to fall apart.

A more holistic and intentional look at the late Korean American artist’s diverse body of work.

With poetry as her companion, Kang combines singular objects and volatile materials in installations that do not distill the origins of her work but…

A queer daughter tallies her father’s abuses—and then he responds.

A peek at our new issue before it's released on September 15.

World-building across drawing, sculpture, and public art.

A coming-of-age novel about the grief and comedy of feeling out of place.

A photographer re-creates a film in dance.

Poetry about the fractal nature to our everything.

An outdoor sculpture grows living organisms.

A sound installation that introduces a nonhuman voice.

A biography of two gay artists whose lives traced a changing queer world.

Paintings of Black women at rest or in solitude.

The author of the classic craft guide Bird by Bird on her twentieth book and what becomes visible when we stop looking away from ourselves.

Community and rebellion are evergreen.

Field notes on the language of adoption, migration, and belonging.

Drawing as a total immersion.

A subversive spin on the western novel.

Making sustainable, nonbinary fashion as art.

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Love, self-deception, and the Nazis’ exploitation of psychoanalysis.

Making the structures of the internet more visible.

Two new novels that riff on marriage, with characters who ask for more than what they're used to getting.

Painting the underdog at an epic scale.

Stories on Black girlhood, thwarted desire, and growing up around New York City’s edges.

Santiago and New York City find their doubling in a global economy.

A debut feature film paints an impressionistic, intimate portrait of James Baldwin.

Mysterious transmissions, unexpected fame, and the friendships that endure.

A sound-sculptural installation that heightens sensory intelligence.

In this excerpt from the novel Whyteface , a homesick Nigerian reunion dinner in Amsterdam turns into a reckoning over belonging.

A mother and daughter’s journey through Europe, family history, and literature itself.

Painting that brings Mesopotamia, Islamic calligraphy, German Expressionism, and Georgia O’Keeffe into the same room.

From the new story collection, Perverts .

A speculative fiction film raises questions of grief and personhood when a humanoid robot replaces a dead child.