Browsing: Pleasure

A threadfin butterflyfish swims though the Red Sea. A recent experiment suggests that these fish may experience something like pleasure. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images…

Mark Horowitz had done his homework before Stephen Sondheim came to visit. He filled the room with scores by Bartók, Brahms, Copland and Rachmaninoff; manuscripts in…

That said, Giger didn’t much care for the final film, which he thought was much too similar to the Alien franchise, which boasts his most famous…

I’ve been with friends all evening, dancing in bare feet to a makeshift band under a bright August moon. It’s 2021, and after more than a…

Edmund White had the most beautiful blush. I recall watching him at a celebration of his work while one of his most sexually explicit essays (which…