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Vanity Foul

Soraya Roberts

May 22, 2018

One hundred years after the puff piece floated into our consciousness, it is being swept aside by a new kind of celebrity profile.

Motherhood!

Lauren Oyler

May 01, 2018

Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.

The Beta Rebellion

The Baffler

April 27, 2018

Young men with pathological ideas about sex and women are radicalizing each other online.

Kanye Unbound

Niela Orr

April 26, 2018

Mr. West: At what cost does the MAGA hat come?

I Dream of Content-Trash

Zachariah Webb

April 25, 2018

The Dream Machine, a new Instagram-thing, makes a mockery of our dreams and imaginations.

Conflict Irresolution

Tom Carson

April 11, 2018

The Battle of Algiers tells us something this world’s Glenn Greenwalds don’t want to hear: torture works.

The Lunatic Face of Fiction

Olivia Parkes

April 10, 2018

On its fortieth anniversary: Joy Williams's “The Changeling” cracked the carapace of literary realism.

This Could Revolutionize That

Kieran Dahl

April 05, 2018

Mindlessly in thrall to Silicon Valley, the media can't stop repeating the phrase "could revolutionize" in its headlines.

The Garbage Man

Will Meyer

April 04, 2018

Meet Sidney Torres: New Orleans trash king, private police chief, reality TV star, and, possibly, the next Trump.

Lost in Boston

Matt Hanson

April 03, 2018

On the fiftieth anniversary of Astral Weeks: we're a long way from Boston's music scene in 1968.

No Mothers, No Daughters

Jessa Crispin

March 27, 2018

Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.