Published biannually, Compound Butter explores food, art, and all the things in between. Its latest issue is about all things comfort—something the whole world needs as we continue to stay at home (again!) and wait out the rest of COVID-19’s reign.

I’m elated to have contributed the text “States of Undress,” in which I got to wax poetic about my definition of (non-edible) comfort—bathrobes, yes, bathrobes—and praise some of their most iconic cinematic appearances.

Take a look at issue fourteen: COMFORT here.