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Heavenly Bodies
March 07, 2023
Residents of a dying planet dream of immortality in space.
Fresh Hell
March 03, 2023
Cowabungled
In a hell week that was particularly dystopic, even for 2023, Tennessee banned drag shows, Florida mulled requiring bloggers who want to critique the governor to register with the state, and the New York Times profiled a man who doesn’t wear shoes as though he ...
Inanimate Objects with Party Hats
“I keep seeing the entire accident in reverse.”
Little Boy Lost
March 02, 2023
Can Australia’s tradition of lost child stories be rewritten?
The Queer Art of Cruelty
February 28, 2023
The defiant drag of Doris Fish.
Announcing Our New Editor in Chief,
Matthew Shen Goodman
February 24, 2023
The Baffler magazine, America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism since 1988, has appointed Matthew Shen Goodman as its new editor in chief.
Shen Goodman comes to The Baffler from Triple Canopy, where he served as senior editor ...
Fresh Hell
February 24, 2023
Sphere is the Mind-Killer
There seems to be no end to the ways that the formerly harmless old-timey knickknacks of a vanished Americana can harm us, with balloons peering down with sinister intent from the skies they once cluttered with box kites and fizzled fireworks, and ...
More American Carnage
A list of dead women, victims of what ought to be called "ego killings."
The Devil’s Milkshake
February 23, 2023
Arresting further complaint, one sip at a time.
Close Encounters
February 23, 2023
The truth is out there. But truth is a moving target.
Gay Liberation Failed
February 21, 2023
On the origins of today’s anti-trans backlash.