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A Case of the Icks

Marlowe Granados

December 11, 2019

Designs for Living

Hi Marlowe, My boyfriend left me abruptly a few months ago and immediately got a new girlfriend. I think he was in a moment of panic in his life, and he made a bad decision. His new girlfriend looks a lot like me, but she is arguably a less interesting version. He still texts me ...

The Leftovers

John Semley

December 10, 2019

In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.

All I Have Are Negative Thoughts

Andrew Marzoni

December 09, 2019

In his eighth novel, Michel Houellebecq ODs on Serotonin.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 06, 2019

The Thousand Eyes of Elementary School 

Why Clerks Still Works

Matt Hanson

December 06, 2019

Why the movie "Clerks" still has its shelf life.

Propaganda, Anti-propaganda

Joel Whitney

December 06, 2019

On The Report and the history of the CIA onscreen

The Trials of Scott Warren

Emily Lynn Saunders,  Max Granger

December 05, 2019

How the state has tried and failed to criminalize solidarity in the borderlands

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Kim Kelly

November 27, 2019

Working Stiff

Transit workers are ideally positioned to push down on the levers of power

Silicon Valley’s Sun Kings

Tom Thor Buchanan

November 26, 2019

What would it look like for Silicon Valley’s elite to find its soul?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 22, 2019

Here in My Car, Safest of All

The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus

Andrew Marzoni

November 22, 2019

Music and fascism fifty years after Adorno

Lions and Tigers and Bears

C.M. Lewis

November 21, 2019

Reject the focus-grouped inanity of corporate Democrats