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The Never-ending Story

Anne Elizabeth Moore

October 25, 2017

There are very few individuals who can be held accountable for crafting what we call “rape culture,” but Harvey Weinstein is one such person.

Tom Hanks: Typewriter Fetishist

J.W. McCormack

October 18, 2017

The impregnable constellation we call “Tom Hanks" has gifted us with a collection of typewriter-fetish fiction.

Offense Lords

Tom Whyman

October 11, 2017

The clowns are not only fundamental to our social institutions; they're literally in charge of them.

President Lisa Simpson

Tom Whyman

October 04, 2017

Lover of austerity economics, mouthpiece of an educated elite. Behold the future: President Lisa Simpson.

The Past Is a Foreign Agent

J.W. McCormack

September 19, 2017

The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.

Tears of a Crazy Clown

Judy Berman

September 12, 2017

Is “Twin Peaks: The Return” a masterpiece of thwarted nostalgia or a sentimental joyride?

Verrit Choly and the Infinite Sadness

David V. Johnson

September 11, 2017

Peter Daou and fellow #StillWithHer Hillary supporters suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they are far from alone.

The Complacent Intellectual Class

David V. Johnson

September 04, 2017

Judging by Tyler Cowen’s latest book, our nation continues to vegetate in the pretend-thinking of #AspenIdeas pseudo-academia.

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.

It All Comes down to Real Estate

Zachariah Webb

July 11, 2017

Q&A with Joshua Cohen

Fiction without Women

Will Harrison

June 28, 2017

In the fiction of Haruki Murakami, female characters are presented as the vanishing vessels of a male future.

Scarborough, Fair

Jason Linkins

June 27, 2017

As Joe sings to Mika, “Look at the signs, these are terrible times.” Listening to the tortured-yet-bouncy testimony of Mystified, I believe.