HOT
The Erotic Review relaunch
“I’d eat Matthew Barney’s ass for as long as the Cremaster Cycle lasted” sort of statements.
Sex scenes (in film, books, and frankly everywhere)
Elizabeth Aldrich
Mourning
Philippa Snow in London
Loose interpretations of novels in film (see The Beast by Bertrand Bonello)
Rob Doyle publishing two books concurrently
Rob Doyle walking for YSL or Celine
Ultraviolence at 10
Smoking cigarettes
Shower sex
Secrets / secrecy
Looking like a Greek rent boy at Sadler’s Wells (esoteric, I know)
Motorbikes
Riders as main characters in fiction
Watching Paul Verhoeven films with the lads
Madrid
A&F jock look
Glass dildos
Gyms as social forums
Jonah Almost
The Diaries of Anais Nin
Erotic fiction
Porn in cinemas (see Le Beau Mec)
Buenos Aires
Underground / DIY / indie theatre (New York only)
Cervantes Theatre’s The House of Bernarda Alba
Ballet where you can practically smell the dancers’ pheromones from the last row
Locker room crushes
Male friendships with fucked up dynamics in books
Sailors
Fiction about the search for immortality
Sky Ferreira gigs
Generosity
“Men who have sex with other men”
90s/00s sex themed fashion / shoots
Seeing dick / naked performers at the Royal Academy (thanks Marina)
And whatever this is:
NOT
The Modern Review (what happened to the relaunch?)
Books about books / writing / trying and/or failing to become a published author
Big book advances
Book launches at bookstore basements
Philippa Snow in Norwich
Woke theatre productions of Shakespeare or other classics
The National Theatre’s The House of Bernarda Alba (soz, don’t fuck with Lorca)
The BFI website
Selfies
Celebrity (except Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Lea Seydoux, Eva Green, etc. literally any French actor)
“Heartfelt exploration of modern masculinity” books or films
Straightforward book to film adaptations
Trauma / trauma plots
Sauna action
Himbos / bimbos
Consolidation in film or book publishing
Author / book merch
Poetry about sex
Netflix
Films produced by fashion houses
IP as film / film franchises
“INSERT NUMBER HERE books we’re excited about” lists
Lists, including this one
Picking lesser known or unknown authors from your backlist and republishing them as unjustly neglected geniuses
The 80s
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Porn
Paris (during the Olympics)
The Olympics
Puritanism
“Identity-driven novels”