Past in Present
December 15, 2022
AIDS cultural production across the generations.
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Have You Forgotten Him?
December 14, 2022
The energies of the POW/MIA movement still haunt our politics.
Shortsighted
December 12, 2022
Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.
Fresh Hell
December 09, 2022
Irritable Vowel Syndrome
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a spangle moop in Pasadena . . . wait, wait, let me start again. In a vole in the gerund, there lorved an omelet . . . no, still not right. Call me Fish Mail! Well, if you’ve been mangling lines you were ...
Mad McMurdo
Nowhere on earth will you find more people talking ruefully of theropods.
Train in Vain
December 08, 2022
The great railroad strike that wasn’t.
Alaa on My Mind
December 07, 2022
What can we offer political prisoners like Alaa Abd el-Fattah?
Sad Girl Manifesto
December 06, 2022
A lost novel returns to the cult carny world of the gonzo queen.
The Sick Proletariat
December 05, 2022
Our health care system needs a radical fix.
Fresh Hell
December 02, 2022
Ghost in the Shell
While we sleep, the people rise and the pasta simmers. A Florida woman has embarked upon an upwards-of-five-million-dollar lawsuit against Velveeta for their fraudulent claim that their signature Shells & Cheese macaroni can be prepared in 3.5 minutes. ...
Who’s Watching
December 01, 2022
The right to privacy in an age of mutual surveillance.
The Weak Novel
November 30, 2022
The “weak novel” declines to serve as bland entertainment.