Benjamin Williams reads through a state document designed to “assert authority and avoid responsibility”—then shows how artist Pablo Allison flips the page back to humanity and agency.

Melissa Monroe’s poem offers a playful, curio cabinet introduction to the history of trepanning, the procedure of opening up a hole in the skull for therapeutic purposes.

In an essay about guides to women’s orgasm in the form of sex manuals directed at heterosexual men, Adora Svitak examines the wish for a reproducible, mechanical way of producing orgasm.