Working on Ourselves
February 24, 2020
Esther Perel’s class-free diagnosis of workplace conflict
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Fresh Hell
February 21, 2020
Burn together for the full experience.
Empathy for the Devil
A terrorism scholar and a war criminal seek a meeting of the minds.
Storyline Fever
February 20, 2020
This election is all about asking how enamored of capitalism Americans really are.
What the Doctors Ordered
February 19, 2020
Inside the medical profession, the tide is turning toward Medicare for All.
This Brand is Late Capitalism
February 19, 2020
A lifestyle writing tic outlives its usefulness.
Grist for the Rumor Mill
February 18, 2020
Truth, lies, and trauma in the novels of Anna Burns.
Fresh Hell
February 14, 2020
Attack of the Bloomblob
On The Pursuit of Human-Level Interestingness Value in AI2-Generated Literary Textual Events
A short story by J.C. Hallman.
Unnamed and Unsurveilled
February 13, 2020
Craigslist is the last holdout of a vanishing internet ethos.
Against Virtuosity
February 12, 2020
Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...
To the Bitter End
February 11, 2020
Notes on Michael Bennet’s zombie campaign.