Martin Dolan

Martin Dolan is a writer from Albany, New York. His essays have appeared in The Nation, The Point, and The Baffler. He’s online at dolanmartin.github.io.

A woman in a tank top plays a guitar while, to her left, a punk rocker holds a microphone and cries out.

La Vida Loca

Martin Dolan

March 20

Even as the stories gets dark, Jaime Hernandez’s linework maintains a tangible lust for life.

An illustration depicts a crowd of people looking and shouting at a flurry of jockeys on horses running in the background, with a plume of dust in the wake.

And They’re Off

Martin Dolan

March 31, 2025

Issue no. 78

Barbacking at the Saratoga Race Course.

A video game screenshot in which a figure in a space suit stands before an open mountain range.

Space Junk

Martin Dolan

December 27, 2023

Microsoft is trying to build the biggest video games in the business—but are they any good?