Essays

What are your pre-date rituals?

Puppies Puppies brings “Nothing New,” and with it, the unseen and the obvious, to the New Museum

Karen Cheung makes playlists into a love language

From being boys together in girlhood, to before and behind the camera.

Mutant hotties, unspeakable babes: will artificial intelligence expand our sense of sexuality?

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

“[Dyke] means fuck you, in a really nice, inclusive way.”

How do you prefer to bend time? We choose foreplay, every time.

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.