Author: Sam Kriss

Columns

Shrinking the President

Sam Kriss

July 28, 2017

You sit the President of the United States down on a nice little chair, and he sprawls there, and he talks to you.

The Opioid Thief

Amber A’Lee Frost

July 27, 2017

Your friend’s bride-to-be may be stealing your wife’s painkillers. Your best bet is to lock ‘em up.

Moving Targets

Katherine Cross

July 27, 2017

We can oppose Trump’s trans ban and everything it sets out to do without valorizing the military’s bombs and bombast.

Two Poems

Bernadette Mayer,  Michael Palmer

July 25, 2017

To a Politician   Your penis is homeless  You are covered with as many warts as the lies you’ve told You pat maggots on their backs Your syphilitic mouth sucks the slugs from the irradiated cocks of your cohorts This gives a bad name to syphilis, if I mention it in ...

Tory Porn

Jonathon Sturgeon

July 25, 2017

For Christopher Nolan, perhaps the last Tory propagandist in cinema, “society” and “the people” do not exist.

We’re Living in The Thick of It

Ned Resnikoff

July 24, 2017

While no Trump administration official can match Malcolm Tucker’s wit, they can certainly equal his vulgarity.

Spicer, Racked

Jason Linkins

July 21, 2017

There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.

More Mush from the Taste Police

Chris Lehmann

July 20, 2017

The first noteworthy paradox in the taste-policing racket is that it’s a singularly lucrative and prestigious one.

Laboring Academia

Maximillian Alvarez

July 20, 2017

Universities claim graduate teaching and research aren’t worthy of the designation of “work.” It’s high time graduate employees called their bluff.

The Online Culture Wars

Corey Pein

July 19, 2017

Corey Pein chats about online right-wing movements with writer and academic Angela Nagle.

The Great Lakes Avengers vs. The Crumbling Cities of the Coast

Hanif Abdurraqib

July 18, 2017

The dominant superhero narrative, at least in its current form, often depends on a metropolis at risk. Whether fictional or real, present or past, a city crumbling in on itself is what’s at stake. A city that seems like one you might love someone inside of, or a city that ...

The Tarot of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Michelle García

July 18, 2017

What happens when one of the world’s biggest cult icons finds himself in the New York art world? Not psychomagic.