Author: Max B. Sawicky

Columns

Frozen

Max B. Sawicky

January 22, 2018

The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.

The Ovid of Loserdom

J.W. McCormack

January 22, 2018

In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.

Cops on Campus

Amber A’Lee Frost

January 19, 2018

This college campus stubbornly refuses to move past circa-2014 Twitter activism. What can I tell my friends to keep them from totally dropping out of any activist spaces?

The Year History Died

Maximillian Alvarez

January 18, 2018

In the battle over who gets to wield history’s power, if we continue to play by the assumption that history has “ended,” we will lose.

Carbon Omissions

Samuel Miller-McDonald

January 18, 2018

Your sparkling utopia is just dumb dust if non-carbon energy infrastructure is not a central pillar of your program. 

Faux-Pas at MOMA

Raad Rahman

January 16, 2018

I lined up at MOMA for a close-up view of how the brutal business of global garment-making was to be cleaned up for aesthetic presentation.

Not a Revolution

Neda Semnani

January 11, 2018

For now, Iranians don’t seem to be telegraphing the need for or hunger to dismantle their government and rebuild it from the from the ground up.

On Enmity

Missouri Williams

January 11, 2018

Enmity, rendered gamelike through this remove into the virtual, is the same as it’s always been, only now maybe even worse.

The Decline of The New Criterion

John Ganz

January 10, 2018

How do you go from witty reviews about Hegel and Kierkegaard to recommending a book by The Veritas Project’s James O’Keefe?

Throne of Games

Chris Lehmann

January 08, 2018

According to Michael Wolff, Trump’s inner circle exists in acute triage conditions, and is forever unable to anticipate the next squalid yawp from the presidential id.

The Afterlife of Newsies

Sarah Marshall

January 05, 2018

It was, within the Newsies fandom, a truth universally acknowledged that we could do whatever the hell we wanted.

The Story of a Face

J.W. McCormack

January 03, 2018

We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.