America in the Deep Fryer
September 18, 2025
The collapse of the United States in material and metaphor.
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Wherefore the stooges and supervillains of yesteryear?
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To keep loss alive is to keep the productive imagination alive.
Ruins and Racists
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Today’s open-minded escapists could be tomorrow’s conspiracy theorists.
Shots in Zion
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Miles away from a genocide, an “alcohol empire” booms.
Millennial Cringe
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Vibe-based assertions are fun to make.
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Play dead for a minute.
Imperfect Pleasures
September 04, 2025
What if this was the same, but about me?
A Fair Slice
September 02, 2025
What we lost when we lost the restaurant was not just a job but a home.
Missed Connections
August 29, 2025
The placeless ambiguity of Kyung-Ran Jo’s fiction.
Senses Working Overtime
August 28, 2025
Sensitivity is not a political position but part of what makes us all human.
For Betar or Worse
August 26, 2025
There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.