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Was OneTaste a cult—or just a pyramid scheme?
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The pulp fiction revival offers lesbianism without feminism.
Dirty Rotten Days
December 23, 2025
The Baffler looks back in anger at 2025.
Phantom Threat
December 22, 2025
Be afraid—be very afraid.
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THERE IS SUFFERING IN THE GARDEN.
Mob Rules
December 18, 2025
Swindle or be swindled.
In the Mood for Capital
December 17, 2025
Wong Kar-wai, for better or for worse, has come “home.”
Cruising for Normal
December 16, 2025
“Plainclothes” is a standard-bearer of normalcy.
Georgia’s New Normal
December 11, 2025
Georgia’s path forward cannot be a return to a past that no longer exists.
Superlatively, Actually Awake
December 10, 2025
Solvej Balle’s petri dish of time and memory.
A Painter of Landscapes
December 09, 2025
Nationalism and the sublime in the work of José María Velasco.