Pleasures

On Stanley Cavell and Hollywood’s romantic legacy.

“Is there really no sexual excitement without at least a frisson, a pleasurable ache?” asks Daphne Merkin, a writer whose decades-long career may very well center on this very question.

Whitney Mallett on the portmanteaus that speak to a very specific kind of transformation.

"In unfamiliar rooms, time passes in vignettes of awakened states."

Four men—and a chorus of masculine voices—share their histories with bisexuality and experiences as Feeld Members.

Homesexual is a column devoted to interiors and interiorities. For the first installment, Emanuele Coccia considers what homes are, and what our experience of moving says about how we love.

A short story by Lucie Elven

Otherness Archive is an open-access online library gathering moving image works by and for the transmasculine community. Here, they present a collection of film stills from their catalog, along with an essay by Ellis Kroese.

Long before Call Me By Your Name and his prolific career as one half of Merchant Ivory, James Ivory escaped the temperamental Oregonian winters for the desert. Here, he revisits his adolescent sojourns in Palm Springs, a site of a sensual coming-of-age

The acclaimed author of "Love Me Back" and a writer of "Orange is the New Black" shares her decades-long timeline of trying to make a television series about abortion.

Perhaps you’ve felt attraction, or attracted others in return—but have you ever felt like a creep? Don’t turn away. Allow Tony Tulathimutte to lead you on a descent into the underbelly of romantic pursuit.