Erotic Review #4
Started in London in 1995 as a photocopied newsletter about erotic art, the Erotic Review became a humorous bimonthly with 30,000 subscribers by the late 1990s. Over its varied history, the Erotic Review has published over 100 books, run an annual photography prize and had a short story collection published by Zeus. The title went solely online in 2010. The Erotic Review was relaunched and reconceived for a contemporary audience in Spring 2024 by editor, Lucy Roeber, and Berlin-based deputy editor, Saskia Vogel. This new chapter recognized the need for a serious cultural platform that explored desire through essays, stories, poetry and art.
In this issue: The Autumn/Winter issue contains Max Porter's five most erotic words and a ground-breaking story by Bregie Hofstede, translated from the Dutch by Booker prize winner Michele Hutchison, on desire postpartum. Further short stories by Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, sage o-a remembering a sex party and Brazilian author Ana Paula Pacheco, translated by Julia Sanches. An essay considering romantic love in Bridget Jones's Diary and Deep Throat by Paulita Pappel and an experience on Grindr by Oluvaseun Olayiwola. Further essays by Brittany Newell, Rebecca Birrell and Omar Kasmani. Shorts by Alex Quicho, Ryan Ruby and Ukrainian artist Misha Honcharenko. Poetry by Mary Katharine Tramontana, Benjamin Farrand and Julia Wong Kcomt, translated by Jennifer Shyue. Guest art curator Clare Cumberlidge invites Irish artist Richard Malone to stage an intervention throughout the publication, with over 40 pages of their work across painting, sculpture, performance and installation.
London, UK, 170 x 240 mm, 168 pages; Autumn/Winter 2025