A letter from the editors.

Shannon Stratton historicizes Party as Form through the hospitality work of arts administrators and draws studio practice out to play at the costume party.

Sara Clugage, Matilda Moors, and Maike Statz bite into the architectural elements of vampire clubs—the threshold, the bar, and the stage—to stake a claim for shifting relationality through transgression.

Leo Felipe translates an excerpt from his book A Universal History of the Afterparty, calling up Brazil’s vibrant, ketamine-soaked heterotopias as immanent critique.

Kelly Lloyd presents a new scientific study on holi-delay, “a condition where people only get excited about holidays after they happen,” that evidences a cultural shift in how we set expectations for meaningful holiday celebrations.

Banu Çiçek Tülü’s video essay explores Kına gecesi (henna night), a party for the bride on the night before her wedding, through the spaces that remain unmarked and questioning.