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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 24, 2023

First, Do No Arm Take a walk, legs! See you later, head! Sayonara, belly button! After millennia in obscurity, arms are finally getting their due as the unsung body part: the torso’s twin protuberances are now the subject of an ode in Vogue by Ada Calhoun. Calhoun reports ...

After the War on Cancer

Libby Watson

March 23, 2023

Modern cancer treatment brings less stigma but higher cost.

The Stranger Within

Abdelkebir Khatibi

March 22, 2023

Found in Translation

The exile in the language of the colonizer.

Honduran Hydra

Jared Olson

March 21, 2023

The fight against open-pit mining in Honduras.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 17, 2023

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash After the fanatical persecution of Oliver Cromwell, the great famine of 1845, and Margaret Thatcher’s horrific treatment of the Sinn Féin martyrs, Ireland has finally won a reprieve: the archdioces of Philidelphia, Trenton, and Wilmington have ...

The Ghost at the Feast

Rachel Pafe

March 16, 2023

On Susan Taubes, Jacob Taubes, and the limits of literary biography.

Red Scared

Billie Anania

March 15, 2023

We went to the Victims of Communism Museum so you don’t have to.

Morbid Symptoms

Phoebe Braithwaite

March 14, 2023

On the monstrous archetypes of British political critique.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 10, 2023

Shilling Me Softly Celebrities: they’re just like us, finagling a 1990s career in radio-friendly hip hop into a second vocation meeting shady Chinese operatives at the Four Seasons to negotiate the release of American captives, only to be targeted by the FBI and linked to ...

Women’s Equality—When?

Rafia Zakaria

March 10, 2023

Alienated

Global gender parity may be more than a century away.

Riding the Goddamn Elephant

A. S. Hamrah

March 09, 2023

You're all going to hell.

Drinking from the Original Fountain

Suleiman Al-Bustani

March 08, 2023

Found in Translation

Suleiman Al-Bustani brings Homer into Arabic.