Poor Blenders
The gentrification of drinking goes hand in hand with gentrification proper.
Adrian Nathan West
Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator, essayist, and author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and My Father’s Diet.
The Screw Tapes
September 14, 2022
On DJ Screw and the Houston rap scene.
Hell, or Catalonia
August 24, 2022
Catalan separatism under the microscope.
Never Gonna Give You Up
June 7, 2022
Ending elite capture.
You Shall Be What You Are
An excerpt from the diaries of Rafael Chirbes.
What Does a Fact Look Like?
June 16, 2021
We may be our own deceivers
Normal People
In a curious document written on the occasion of Heidegger’s eightieth birthday, Hannah Arendt recalls the hushed tones in which admirers in the twenties had spoken of him as “the secret king of philosophy.” I have the sense that Gary Indiana occupies a similar position in ...
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Chaturbator
July 15, 2020
On two books that examine the world of purchased intimacy via the internet.