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Photograph by Marco Borggreve. Courtesy of Alisa Weilerstein.
It didn’t eat, didn’t drink, didn’t sleep. It certainly didn’t cough and sneeze during performances. It made no demands. Quiescently it languished in its carbon-fiber carrying case, helpless, hidden, and naked as the day it was born. Braced within velvet and Velcro, suspended i...
Elizabeth Glaessner in her studio in Brooklyn. Photograph by Hazel Byers.
Our recent Fall issue features a painting titled Big Head, by the Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner: a nearly-seven-foot piece that, for the cover of issue no. 257, we shrank down to approximately six inches by five. This September, we visited G...
When the sixties ceased swinging, the sexual revolution diversified and penetrated new markets, like real estate. Adults-only apartment complexes sprang up in answer to the needs of the lost and lonely, the childless and horny, offering experiences both socially stimulating and aquatically immersive. Such is the promise of Villa Dionysus, a club for swingles ages twen...
Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1939. Photograph by Lloyd Arnold, courtesy of
As a child, Turner Brooks would lie awake in the smallest bedroom of a creaky seaside house in Maine. From below, he could hear his grandparents talking in the living room, and from the window, the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. These two sounds became, for him, as much a part of the bedroom as its Dutch wallpaper—what he would come to call a “spatial memory.”...