Beat the Heat

by Christina M. Russo

Originally published on November 1, 1998

Sex. When I think of this word, I think of my friend Pip, who is steeping in sex like an undying tea bag. He can’t get enough. “I’m pathological,” he’ll say, and I believe him. So did, perhaps, thousands of others this year, at Burning Man, a festival I’ve never been to, but Pip describes [...]

Travels in Nepal

by Christina M. Russo

Originally published on August 1, 1998

I want to be reborn as a woman.
I tell this to Salje and he laughs at me. Food fills his cheeks, we are eating lunch on the roof, and I’m not sure what is so funny. So many want to be reborn as man, and you want other, he says, rice dripping from the [...]