The Baffler

• “It’s, like, Laguna Beach meets Girls,” wrote Kristen Yoonsoon Kim over at Complex. She’s referring to the latest in straight-to-YouTube reality television, The Bedford Stop, a show about—wait for it—boring, ...

• “The big secret of the innovation economy is that it’s not very innovative,” said Baffler mayor John Summers to Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source last week. Listen along here!  • You’ve heard the news: Modigliani’s ...

• Welcome to “The Edge,” a low-hanging target for a magazine with a habit of blunting. Described as the “Uber of buildings,” this steely, app-responsive structure sounds like a giant game of musical chairs. No one has a ...

• With the news that President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline proposal in what is being called a victory for environmentalists, it seems a good time to look back at Scott Beauchamp’s dissection of the “jobs vs. environment myth” here on ...

• In case your kids are lacking appropriate role models, one venture capitalist is stepping up to offer them a tale of some true superheroes. In the Kickstarter pitch for Joe Floyd’s new graphic novel, he tells us that “young people grow up idolizing the ...

• This is Amazon’s week of delusion. Yesterday, the company known for steadily cutting off booksellers’ and publishers’ oxygen opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, according to the Seattle Times. And on Thursday, that same company, whose ...

• We’re proud to introduce the newest member of the Baffler brood—our twenty-ninth issue, “The Family That Preys Together”! Find it, and its all-too-healthy set of lungs, on newsstands! The online roll-out begins today with Kathleen ...

• In Romania, imprisoned politicians, footballers, and pop stars are writing books to shorten their sentences, abusing a loophole in local law: Bad news, though! You won’t be able to lay your hands on these no doubt brilliant works—the publishers only tend ...