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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 07, 2023

Babes in Oyland Life begins, language and memory dawn as the skull grows hard, and the digestion adapts to solids; the future is full of promise. But since disappointment, emotional scar tissue, and debt await you anyway, why not get the ball rolling and become traumatized ...

Thinking Like a Mountain

Madeleine Crum

April 06, 2023

On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.

The Amazon Has Lost All Subjectivity

Project RADAM

April 05, 2023

Found in Translation

The Amazon is full of poets with a bird’s-eye sense of reality.

The Wonderful Death of a State

Quinn Slobodian

April 04, 2023

Crack-up was the flywheel of human progress.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 31, 2023

Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy In a week that saw the historic indictment of a former president, the Senate overturning the Covid-19 emergency order, and a federal judge block coverage for preventative care and cancer screenings, the people can be forgiven for longing to ...

The Department of Songbird Investigations

Kristen Gallagher

March 31, 2023

Fiction

"I’m a journalist first, but I got a lot of certifications."

Split City

Martha Bayne

March 30, 2023

In the race to replace Chicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot, is a consensus candidate even possible?

Last Resorts

Cassandra Kislenko

March 29, 2023

In Canada, assisted dying has been offered to disabled people in lieu of adequate care.

Positively BEGGING You

Arvin Alaigh

March 28, 2023

Bad Democrats are ignoring this email!

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.