A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist
April 23
This offers itself as revelation.
Adrian Nathan West
Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator, essayist, and author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and My Father’s Diet.
Cuck-Coded Zarathustra
September 23, 2025
“Muscle Man” spurns anything that might have made it a novel with proper heft.
Imperfect Pleasures
September 4, 2025
What if this was the same, but about me?
I Will Disrespect You
The tragedy and barbarism of drill culture.
Enter the Wagon
Look upon my backseat bloodshed, ye mighty, and despair.
The Orchestra Minion
Death is always a scandal.
Bang the World
Xenophile pickup artists see themselves as incipient alpha males.
Come to Harm
November 11, 2024
The vicissitudes of harm reduction and policing in Philadelphia.