Skip To Main Content
Erica X Eisen on Muck Rack

Erica X Eisen

As seen in: BBC Mundo, Bloomberg CityLab, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Slate, Atlas Obscura, Boston University, Squarespace, The Nation, New York Review of Books and

Get in touch with Erica X

Contact Erica X, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Erica X Eisen’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

A new genre of artwork flourished amid the rubble of disaster-stricken Edo in 1855: a type of woodblock print…

View article →
Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot's Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot's Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

A self-styled glaciologist, Rabot undertook four expeditions to the Arctic in his lifetime, taking stunning p…

View article →
Language is at the heart of Indigenous community health | Aeon Essays

Language is at the heart of Indigenous community health | Aeon Essays

For First Nations people, health is not a matter of mechanical fitness of the body, but of language, identity…

View article →
Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)

Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)

A Japanese collection of poetry and prose includes illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by …

View article →
Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928-32)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928-32)

After the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, a group of modern Japanese artists sought to capture the rapid mode…

View article →
*A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)

*A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)

A curious two-volume illustrated book on bonsai from the nineteenth century dispensed not only with vessels b…

View article →

Articles

The Spirit Bride

|
By Erica X Eisen, Leon Craig, Carleigh Baker, Chantal Braganza Verified
| Hazlitt Verified
My in-laws did not approach me directly about becoming a spirit bride. I received their request through my father, who sat me down rather formally one evening to consider my options. I would never make you do this, he said several times, although it was clear he wanted me very much to say yes.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Language is medicine - Erica X Eisen

|
By Erica X Eisen
| QOSHE
Roughly 250 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory is a place called Utopia. Composed of a loose collection of sparsely populated clan sites in the inland desert, the area is the traditional homeland of the Alyawarr and Anmatyerr peoples, roughly 500 of whom still live in Utopia today.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

‘What’s the New Wind?’: An Interview with Heidi Julavits

|
By Hope Reese Verified, Anna Fitzpatrick, Colin Barrett, Erica X Eisen
| Hazlitt Verified
“Points of orientation aren’t constant,” Heidi Julavits writes in Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years (Hogarth). In this latest book, Julavits uses this kind of thinking to probe into how, exactly, to navigate a life. What depends on luck? How do we move from the past to the present? How do we prepare for the future?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 122 licensed articles (128 Total)