The Shoptimist: An advertisement in influencer’s clothing
In her monthly column, amateur business analyst Maya Kotomori explores the ongoing litigation between two beigefluencers through a modern history of advertising
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
Messy! Nasty! Silly! Columnist Drew Zeiba revisits the past year in books
The Shoptimist: The transitional gift edit
In a holiday edition of her monthly column, Maya Kotomori shares four brands redefining what it means for clothing to transform for temperature, mood, or...
The Shoptimist: An unbearable uniformity of being
In her monthly column, previously closeted gym member Maya Kotomori ruminates on the role of the yoga set on her shopping psyche
Fine Print: You’re a winner, baby
On the heels of the National Book Awards announcements, columnist Drew Zeiba asks what prizes mean for publishing
The Shoptimist: Put an end to the microtrend
For her monthly column, skeptic and hater Maya Kotomori shares a list of the most abhorrent as-seen-on-TikTok looks she’s caught in the wild
Fine Print: Did Michel Houellebecq steal Thomas Bernhard’s coat?
In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba hunts for clues in the controversial French author’s latest novel, ‘Annihilation’
The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica
In the second installment of columnist Maya Kotomori’s interview mini-series, the Brooklyn-based designer talks personal style, fetish, and the poetics of taste in fashion
Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’
Columnist Drew Zeiba sits down with ‘Language Arts’ co-editors Layla Halabian and Sophia June to talk about books, bags, and branding
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
For her monthly column, fashion bard Maya Kotomori tells the tale of luxury’s fraught relationship to streetwear from ’90s Supreme to 2010s Odd Future to...
Fine Print: The crónica as daily epic
In his column, Drew Zeiba reads possibilities for prose and politics in new collections of Hebe Uhart, Clarice Lispector, and Pedro Lemebel’s kaleidoscopic essays
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page
The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now
In a Juneteenth special of her monthly column, hotep-in-training Maya Kotomori puts on her Dr. Umar kufi to analyze the commodity fetish of hip-hop
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no
In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba considers the creative merits of giving up through tales of defiant scriveners, starving artists, and painters fluent in refusal
The Shoptimist Speaks: In conversation with Christine Alcalay
Columnist Maya Kotomori’s new mini-series of interviews with NYC-local craftspeople begins with a spotlight on the Park Slope designer, discussing her eponymous brand, fashion labor,...
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
Pleasure-seeking: In pursuit of the real
From exclusive sex parties to subversive performances at the Chelsea Hotel, columnist Camille Sojit Pejcha chronicles the search for self-expression in New York’s underground
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba spends 24 hours partying in Manhattan’s alternate literary realities
Pleasure-seeking: On my ex’s exes
In her first monthly column, Camille Sojit Pejcha explores internet stalking as a queer rite of passage
Daytripping: Dancefloor antagonism
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark works through the feelings of antagonism for all the other dancers.
The Shoptimist: To wear your heart in your bra
In her monthly column for Document, Maya Kotomori remains abreast of lingerie’s history in Valentine’s Day marketing schemes
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
For his first monthly column, Drew Zeiba asks if art is worth it
120 bpm: How can we go on raving at a time like this?
Introducing his monthly column with Document, writer and raver Evan Moffitt asks if the party can set us free
Daytripping: Vibe editor
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark passes the mic to Shawn Dickerson, to talk 40 years on the New York nightlife circuit
The Shoptimist: What it is, what it was, what it should cost
In her monthly column for Document, Maya Kotomori evaluates the future of subscription services through a luxury lens
The Shoptimist: A deliberation on object permanence in the Desert Hills Premium Outlets
In her monthly column for Document, writer and fashion theory knave Maya Kotomori finds age 25 while Black Friday buying
Daytripping: Publication day
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark ponders the problem of art in the age of content
Daytripping: The writer and the rave
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark considers noise, information theory, and the text of the party
Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body
Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men
The Saint’s legendary annual bacchanal shut down after 40 years, signaling a bittersweet transition in the landscape of queer life
Daytripping: Herding cats
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about raves in relation to service workers, and how she once got on the wrong side...
Daytripping: How dancing can make you gay
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes on the interpenetration of queer and straight spaces
