This is What Insanity Sounds Like
December 17, 2019
On the curiously self-tortured legacy of post-grunge music
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Mister Politician Man
December 16, 2019
On Justin Trudeau’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Fresh Hell
December 13, 2019
New Doom, Faster Than the Old Doom
The Baffler Welcomes J. W. McCormack
December 12, 2019
The Baffler is delighted to announce that J. W. McCormack is our new fiction editor. He will oversee the relaunch of the magazine’s fiction section with new stories in each bimonthly print issue as well as online fiction offerings every month. He joins Nicole Terez Dutton, ...
Your Friends Are Not HR
I’ve fought two uphill battles during my time on earth: mental illness (neurodivergence) and friendship. Friendship is difficult for me. When people are not upfront with what they need from me or what they want to say to me, the difficulty of reading social cues intersects ...
A Case of the Icks
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
December 10, 2019
In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.
All I Have Are Negative Thoughts
December 09, 2019
In his eighth novel, Michel Houellebecq ODs on Serotonin.
Fresh Hell
December 06, 2019
The Thousand Eyes of Elementary School
Why Clerks Still Works
December 06, 2019
Why the movie "Clerks" still has its shelf life.
Propaganda, Anti-propaganda
December 06, 2019
On The Report and the history of the CIA onscreen
The Trials of Scott Warren
December 05, 2019
How the state has tried and failed to criminalize solidarity in the borderlands