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Johannesburg Blues

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

October 09, 2020

Ivan Vladislavić’s characters are lost in the new South Africa.

Kafka in Pieces

Nathan Goldman

October 07, 2020

On a newly translated collection of Kafka fragments.

Like, Subscribe, Invest

Saritha Ramakrishna

September 25, 2020

Confronting a crisis with the real estate gurus of YouTube.

Desiring Machines

Sam Moore

September 22, 2020

“I like to watch the pictures.”

One Man’s Trash

Michael Friedrich

September 21, 2020

Two new books reveal the meaning latent in the junk we collect.

No Man Is an Island

John Semley

September 15, 2020

Martin Eden rails against the cult of individualism.

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Lorna Scott Fox

September 14, 2020

Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.

Landscapes of Memory

Saleem Haddad

September 09, 2020

Two Palestinian novels confront the ghosts of the Nakba.

Clinging to a Zine

Nathan Ma

September 07, 2020

The pandemic further endangers indie music journalism.

Body Meets Design

Emily Watlington

September 03, 2020

The best designers know the difference between a policy problem and a design problem.

The Dragon Rises Yet Again

John Semley

September 02, 2020

Reexamining the triumphs and tragedies of Bruce Lee.

The Pale Shade of Drag

Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis

August 26, 2020

Drag has always carried with it the seeds of its own assimilation.