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Donkey Work
January 18, 2023
What does the pained animal signify?
The Crime Wave That Wasn’t
January 17, 2023
Burlington challenges the power of its police department.
Fresh Hell
January 13, 2023
Sex and Con-dy
It is a new year and, with Valentine’s Day approaching, love is in the air—along with its attendant archangels of confusion, deception, and betrayal. To wit, Susan Meachen, the author of independently published romance novels like Smoky Mtn. Love and a ...
Database States
January 12, 2023
Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.
Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains
January 11, 2023
The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.
Unflinching Prisoners of a Grandiose Make-Believe
January 10, 2023
On Jan Valtin’s revolutionary memoir.
Real Magic
January 05, 2023
For Doug Henning, the equation of magic with Transcendental Meditation was no mere marketing tactic.
To All the Final Girls
Why not try being a little bit of a nightmare?
A Season in Hell
December 30, 2022
This year brought such a dizzying surplus of depravity—a truly incalculable preponderance of cruelty and braggadocio, vanity and idiocy—that no ledger would suffice. Each week, though, we plumbed the depths of mass media in hopes of surfacing the blackest pearls and the ...
Dead the Long Year
December 29, 2022
The Baffler looks back in anger at 2022.
By the Bomb’s Filmic Light
December 27, 2022
How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?