Desiring Machines
September 22, 2020
“I like to watch the pictures.”
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One Man’s Trash
September 21, 2020
Two new books reveal the meaning latent in the junk we collect.
Fresh Hell
September 18, 2020
Estée in the Sky
Pulp Nonfiction
A dying mill town and its toxic legacies.
Virtue by the Numbers
September 17, 2020
On the bad methodology of corporate diversity and inclusion indices.
Teaching Them a Lesson
September 16, 2020
Jordan uses the pandemic to crack down on its largest union.
Empire and Degradation
On the links between colonialism and sexual control.
No Man Is an Island
September 15, 2020
Martin Eden rails against the cult of individualism.
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
September 14, 2020
Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.
Fresh Hell
September 11, 2020
Halfway House of Mouse
Hanging by a Strand
Worker dissent brews at an iconic New York bookstore.
Treating American Empire
September 10, 2020
On providing therapy for agents of state violence.