Culture At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme This year’s fundraising event for the artist-run space features footlong high heels, whipped cream-spewing bras, and live tattoos
Art Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator Ahead of her solo presentation at NADA with Moskowitz Bayse gallery, Weist sits down with Document’s editor-in-chief to discuss surveillance data as artistic material
Art Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection In conversation for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the curator and critic recount the friendships, politics, and small graces of New York City’s cultural legacies
Music Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce The multidisciplinary artists untangle lyric metaphors and pop cultural myths for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Above the Fold ‘Like Love’ guides readers through years of Maggie Nelson’s thoughtful work The autotheorist’s latest book is a best-of collection of essays equal parts academic and personal by Will Allstetter Above the Fold Fine Print: Like letting the world read your diary Columnist Drew Zeiba considers the risks of leaving a record through the journals of Sheila Heti, Virginia Woolf, and Tina Brown by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous Set in a Polish forest, the award-winning translator’s first novel embarks on a rewilding of language, narrative, and art itself by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold ‘No Judgment’ with Lauren Oyler The writer’s newest collection of essays reminds us that cultural critics are people too by Madeleine Connors Above the Fold Fine Print: A Tale of One City For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba spends 24 hours partying in Manhattan’s alternate literary realities by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together? For his first monthly column, Drew Zeiba asks if art is worth it by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Kaur Alia Ahmed crafts poetry in three dimensions with ‘sky, harp’ The New York–based artist and writer merges sound, sculpture, and sport in their debut solo show by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Ottessa Moshfegh writes not what we asked for, but what we need Excavating the dark side of human nature, the author invites readers to find divinity in depravity by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold 50 years at church with the Poetry Project Whitney Mallett reports on the East Village institution’s 12-hour marathon variety show of unhinged spoken word, absurdist musical sets, and unsettling dance numbers by Whitney Mallett Above the Fold Lauren Elkin’s ‘Art Monsters’ thrives in the messy The author’s latest book profiles the great and grimy women of the last century by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Eli Payne Mandel’s infinite levity in ‘The Grid’ In his first book, the psychoanalyst-in-training reimagines history’s many apocalypses through lost languages, letters from exile, and dead painters by Maya Kotomori Conversations Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation The novelist and the filmmaker talk Oakland, Basquiat, hip-hop, and propaganda for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Jordan Coley Above the Fold Natasha Stagg’s ‘Artless’ is the fringes of fandom The book tunnels down the bottomless pit of celebrity, exploring how self-commodification diminishes star power by making stars of us all by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold The pen, the sword, and liberation An introduction to Palestinian resistance poetry—a medium for the reclamation of a people’s history by Maya AlZaben Above the Fold Cookie Mueller’s genius takes center stage at the Roxy ‘For People with Short Attention Spans’ drew a crowd of Downtown luminaries, celebrating the singular voice of the late-great raconteur by Jayne O'Dwyer Above the Fold ‘The Future Future’ is obsessed with words and their failures Novelist Adam Thirwell joins Document to explain why 18th-century print culture and 21st-century social media discourse aren’t so different by Olivia Treynor Conversations In the confessional with Jodie Foster and David Sedaris Surveying dialects, dogs, death, and dating, the actor and writer meet for the first time for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Inside the Neo-Decadent movement How a cohort of international writers opposed the status quo, pulling from the endless subjectivity of culture to produce some of the century’s best literature by Ben Dreith Above the Fold ‘New Millennium Boyz’ is most profound at its most profane Following the book’s release, Alex Kazemi joined Document to reflect on its mixed reception and consider the tragedies of teen boyhood by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The next wave of indie publishing The founders of 5 independent publications join Document to discuss the past, present, and future of the little magazine by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Publication day In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark ponders the problem of art in the age of content by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold Greer Lankton’s sketchbook diagrams the construction of a self Primary Information’s latest release immortalizes a month in the trailblazing artist’s life—an addendum to her legacy that leaps off the page by Journey Streams Above the Fold Ben Fama’s ‘If I Close My Eyes’ pits two survivors against the world The novel traces the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Kim Kardashian book signing, blending absurd structures with emotional authenticity by Brittany Menjivar Above the Fold Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’ The author speaks on her latest novel, centering the pleasures, pains, and universalities of the family drama by Emma Cohen Above the Fold Genesis according to Lauren Groff Upon the release of ‘The Vaster Wilds,’ the author talks archival interventions, iambic pentameter, and historical fiction’s bad reputation by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction In elegiac, lyrical, wry, snarky, and wonderfully plain-spoken prose, the author crafts characters through conversational pairs by Thomas Wee Above the Fold Claire A. Nivola’s ‘The House in the Country’ reckons with the past, and leaves it behind Between mulberry picking and rubbing shoulders with the art-world elite, the book finds universality within an extraordinary childhood by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ‘Brutes’ and ‘All-Night Pharmacy’ destroy the canonical bad girl, allowing for pure(r) heroines to emerge by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world In ‘The Quickening,’ Elizabeth Rush contemplates parenting and procreation amid Antarctica’s rapidly vanishing ice sheets by Alex Hodor-Lee Above the Fold Sophia Giovannitti on sex, art, and labor Working across mediums, the author of ‘Working Girl’ grapples with the contradictions of life under capitalism—complicating notions of consent in a totalizing system by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Edan Lepucki’s ‘Time’s Mouth’ is a supernatural labyrinth of past and present The author and LA native speaks on her latest novel, wrestling with California-specific ideals of place, tempo, and doctrine by Diana Ruzova Above the Fold For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA California’s cultural capital is the muse behind ‘De Civitate Angelorum,’ the curator’s new book composed entirely in Latin by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Maya Binyam’s ‘Hangman’ is an existential journey The writer’s debut novel traverses an unnamed African nation, exploring the symptoms of diaspora in terms of mourning, identity, and truth by Vivien Lee Above the Fold Instructions for living from Inès Longevial’s bookshelf From Colette to Camus, the French painter shares her favorite reads for finding inspiration in the quotidian by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Overheard at Casual Encounterz’s Lower East Side salon Document discloses the gossip we caught at the series’s New York send-off, between boxed wine, cigarette smoke, and Notes app fiction by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Caroline Calloway lies to tell the truth In the wake of ‘Scammer,’ the memoirist joins Document to set the record straight—again by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Samantha Joy Groff’s required reading for a ‘Pennsyltucky’ girlhood From a hauntingly prescient bildungsroman to a sardonic story of working-class life, the emerging painter offers Document tales of family, survival, and longing by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold May Rio’s booklist for reinventing the damsel in distress Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ the musician compiles incisive texts by modern female authors by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision The small town of Narrowsburg, New York will host contemporary literature’s visionaries, as they reflect on the great English novelist’s legacy by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives Journey Streams reflects on ‘I Could Not Believe It,’ the artist’s 1979 diary archiving the complex landscape of adolescent Black queerness by Journey Streams Above the Fold Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal At Pioneer Works, the two met to investigate where man went wrong, and the misused excuses of biology for prejudices by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood Against a cultural backdrop of #TradWives and #BossQueens, the novel delves into the dark side of nuclear family, in scenes shockingly blunt and intimate by Sammy Loren Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us The author set out to write a book about the art of monstrous men—in the process, she rendered a complex portrait of humanity by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation Years ago, the actor requested the cinematic rights to the writer’s ‘Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’—here, they revisit the proposal by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together Vignettes from O, Miami Festival: bee-keeping, traffic, and readings cementing a quick-changing city’s literary scene by Christina Catherine Martinez Above the Fold An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival At a New York City soirée ahead of the Narrowsburg event, Deep Water founder Aaron Hicklin read out the 11-step plan that started it all by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s politics of care The prison abolitionist and scholar discusses community policing, the failure of Anglo-American geography, and the notion of freedom as a place by Amelia Abraham Above the Fold The noirish, alternative world of ‘The Biography of X’ Author Catherine Lacey sits down with Document, discussing her latest novel’s take on narcissism, art-world celebrity, and the tragedy of US history by Sammy Loren Above the Fold McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement Following the release of her book, the designer and researcher speaks on information activism, the art of collecting, and the power in rendering grassroots technologies by Sanjana Varghese
Above the Fold ‘Like Love’ guides readers through years of Maggie Nelson’s thoughtful work The autotheorist’s latest book is a best-of collection of essays equal parts academic and personal by Will Allstetter
Above the Fold Fine Print: Like letting the world read your diary Columnist Drew Zeiba considers the risks of leaving a record through the journals of Sheila Heti, Virginia Woolf, and Tina Brown by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous Set in a Polish forest, the award-winning translator’s first novel embarks on a rewilding of language, narrative, and art itself by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold ‘No Judgment’ with Lauren Oyler The writer’s newest collection of essays reminds us that cultural critics are people too by Madeleine Connors
Above the Fold Fine Print: A Tale of One City For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba spends 24 hours partying in Manhattan’s alternate literary realities by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together? For his first monthly column, Drew Zeiba asks if art is worth it by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Kaur Alia Ahmed crafts poetry in three dimensions with ‘sky, harp’ The New York–based artist and writer merges sound, sculpture, and sport in their debut solo show by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Ottessa Moshfegh writes not what we asked for, but what we need Excavating the dark side of human nature, the author invites readers to find divinity in depravity by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold 50 years at church with the Poetry Project Whitney Mallett reports on the East Village institution’s 12-hour marathon variety show of unhinged spoken word, absurdist musical sets, and unsettling dance numbers by Whitney Mallett
Above the Fold Lauren Elkin’s ‘Art Monsters’ thrives in the messy The author’s latest book profiles the great and grimy women of the last century by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Eli Payne Mandel’s infinite levity in ‘The Grid’ In his first book, the psychoanalyst-in-training reimagines history’s many apocalypses through lost languages, letters from exile, and dead painters by Maya Kotomori
Conversations Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation The novelist and the filmmaker talk Oakland, Basquiat, hip-hop, and propaganda for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Jordan Coley
Above the Fold Natasha Stagg’s ‘Artless’ is the fringes of fandom The book tunnels down the bottomless pit of celebrity, exploring how self-commodification diminishes star power by making stars of us all by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold The pen, the sword, and liberation An introduction to Palestinian resistance poetry—a medium for the reclamation of a people’s history by Maya AlZaben
Above the Fold Cookie Mueller’s genius takes center stage at the Roxy ‘For People with Short Attention Spans’ drew a crowd of Downtown luminaries, celebrating the singular voice of the late-great raconteur by Jayne O'Dwyer
Above the Fold ‘The Future Future’ is obsessed with words and their failures Novelist Adam Thirwell joins Document to explain why 18th-century print culture and 21st-century social media discourse aren’t so different by Olivia Treynor
Conversations In the confessional with Jodie Foster and David Sedaris Surveying dialects, dogs, death, and dating, the actor and writer meet for the first time for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Inside the Neo-Decadent movement How a cohort of international writers opposed the status quo, pulling from the endless subjectivity of culture to produce some of the century’s best literature by Ben Dreith
Above the Fold ‘New Millennium Boyz’ is most profound at its most profane Following the book’s release, Alex Kazemi joined Document to reflect on its mixed reception and consider the tragedies of teen boyhood by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The next wave of indie publishing The founders of 5 independent publications join Document to discuss the past, present, and future of the little magazine by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Publication day In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark ponders the problem of art in the age of content by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold Greer Lankton’s sketchbook diagrams the construction of a self Primary Information’s latest release immortalizes a month in the trailblazing artist’s life—an addendum to her legacy that leaps off the page by Journey Streams
Above the Fold Ben Fama’s ‘If I Close My Eyes’ pits two survivors against the world The novel traces the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Kim Kardashian book signing, blending absurd structures with emotional authenticity by Brittany Menjivar
Above the Fold Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’ The author speaks on her latest novel, centering the pleasures, pains, and universalities of the family drama by Emma Cohen
Above the Fold Genesis according to Lauren Groff Upon the release of ‘The Vaster Wilds,’ the author talks archival interventions, iambic pentameter, and historical fiction’s bad reputation by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction In elegiac, lyrical, wry, snarky, and wonderfully plain-spoken prose, the author crafts characters through conversational pairs by Thomas Wee
Above the Fold Claire A. Nivola’s ‘The House in the Country’ reckons with the past, and leaves it behind Between mulberry picking and rubbing shoulders with the art-world elite, the book finds universality within an extraordinary childhood by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ‘Brutes’ and ‘All-Night Pharmacy’ destroy the canonical bad girl, allowing for pure(r) heroines to emerge by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world In ‘The Quickening,’ Elizabeth Rush contemplates parenting and procreation amid Antarctica’s rapidly vanishing ice sheets by Alex Hodor-Lee
Above the Fold Sophia Giovannitti on sex, art, and labor Working across mediums, the author of ‘Working Girl’ grapples with the contradictions of life under capitalism—complicating notions of consent in a totalizing system by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Edan Lepucki’s ‘Time’s Mouth’ is a supernatural labyrinth of past and present The author and LA native speaks on her latest novel, wrestling with California-specific ideals of place, tempo, and doctrine by Diana Ruzova
Above the Fold For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA California’s cultural capital is the muse behind ‘De Civitate Angelorum,’ the curator’s new book composed entirely in Latin by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Maya Binyam’s ‘Hangman’ is an existential journey The writer’s debut novel traverses an unnamed African nation, exploring the symptoms of diaspora in terms of mourning, identity, and truth by Vivien Lee
Above the Fold Instructions for living from Inès Longevial’s bookshelf From Colette to Camus, the French painter shares her favorite reads for finding inspiration in the quotidian by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Overheard at Casual Encounterz’s Lower East Side salon Document discloses the gossip we caught at the series’s New York send-off, between boxed wine, cigarette smoke, and Notes app fiction by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Caroline Calloway lies to tell the truth In the wake of ‘Scammer,’ the memoirist joins Document to set the record straight—again by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Samantha Joy Groff’s required reading for a ‘Pennsyltucky’ girlhood From a hauntingly prescient bildungsroman to a sardonic story of working-class life, the emerging painter offers Document tales of family, survival, and longing by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold May Rio’s booklist for reinventing the damsel in distress Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ the musician compiles incisive texts by modern female authors by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision The small town of Narrowsburg, New York will host contemporary literature’s visionaries, as they reflect on the great English novelist’s legacy by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives Journey Streams reflects on ‘I Could Not Believe It,’ the artist’s 1979 diary archiving the complex landscape of adolescent Black queerness by Journey Streams
Above the Fold Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal At Pioneer Works, the two met to investigate where man went wrong, and the misused excuses of biology for prejudices by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood Against a cultural backdrop of #TradWives and #BossQueens, the novel delves into the dark side of nuclear family, in scenes shockingly blunt and intimate by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us The author set out to write a book about the art of monstrous men—in the process, she rendered a complex portrait of humanity by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation Years ago, the actor requested the cinematic rights to the writer’s ‘Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’—here, they revisit the proposal by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together Vignettes from O, Miami Festival: bee-keeping, traffic, and readings cementing a quick-changing city’s literary scene by Christina Catherine Martinez
Above the Fold An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival At a New York City soirée ahead of the Narrowsburg event, Deep Water founder Aaron Hicklin read out the 11-step plan that started it all by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s politics of care The prison abolitionist and scholar discusses community policing, the failure of Anglo-American geography, and the notion of freedom as a place by Amelia Abraham
Above the Fold The noirish, alternative world of ‘The Biography of X’ Author Catherine Lacey sits down with Document, discussing her latest novel’s take on narcissism, art-world celebrity, and the tragedy of US history by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement Following the release of her book, the designer and researcher speaks on information activism, the art of collecting, and the power in rendering grassroots technologies by Sanjana Varghese