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The Desire to Be Visible

Matene Toure

March 01, 2024

The Dupes confronts Zionist erasure.

Write Your Book

Vanessa Lily Chung

February 29, 2024

Writing is serious work, but as Sheila Heti reminds us, also serious fun.

Critique of Artificial Reason

Sean Michaels

February 27, 2024

If a machine can dream, it can make the intuitive leap to creativity.

From The Other Side

Jackson Davidow

February 22, 2024

Recapturing the disappeared queer nightlife of Boston.

Punk Custodians

Jenn Pelly

February 21, 2024

A conversation with Grace Ambrose about Kleenex/LiLiPUT.

Kaiju Look

K. F. Watanabe

February 20, 2024

Godzilla is evergreen in the popular imagination.

Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time

Bruce Robbins

February 16, 2024

Notes on the style of the present.

Bad Religion

Lauren Fadiman

February 15, 2024

“The rest of the year is my fake life.”

Eat and Be Eaten

Robert Rubsam

February 08, 2024

“The Taste of Things” restores food to the level of art.

Very Special Episodes

Grace Byron

February 07, 2024

The present tense of trans fiction.

Fifty Shades of Red

Alexander Wells

January 30, 2024

In “Kairos,” the fall of the Berlin Wall coincides with the end of an affair.

Self and Simulation

Trevor Quirk

January 18, 2024

What defines reality, and why should we live there?