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The Baffler

November 11, 2022

The Fever Has Broken On Tuesday, millions of the nation’s weary voters made their way to the polls to submit their ballots as the raw material for overcompensated pundits, televised and otherwise, to weave into spurious narratives about the state of the “nation,” the ...

The Vacillating Voters

Dave Denison

November 11, 2022

Civilifications

Swing voters still hold the fate of the nation in their hands.

Dream of a Past

Ella Fox-Martens

November 10, 2022

On H.D.’s writing and rewriting of herself—and her past.

One Big, Happy Family

Kim Hew-Low

November 09, 2022

On the Kardashians and the British royals

Who Still Needs the Carnivalesque?

Ed Simon

November 07, 2022

In a court of fools, who laughs last?

The Roiling Point

Rafia Zakaria

November 04, 2022

Alienated

The death of a journalist brings Pakistan to a perilous moment.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 04, 2022

The Gimple Life In an eerie example of a private fantasy going public, a man in a gimp suit has been terrorizing villages in the southwest of England. The bodysuit-clad bogeyman has been the target of a manhunt over the last few years, typically flopping to the ground and ...

Everybody Says Don’t

Marlowe Granados

November 04, 2022

Designs for Living

Respectable people are terribly dull.

On the Bally

Jessie Kindig

November 03, 2022

Susan Meiselas: artist-ethnographer.

Hollow City

Jackson Arn

November 02, 2022

Exploring Edward Hopper’s New York.

No Consequences

Trevor Jackson

November 01, 2022

On elite impunity.

Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World

Reed McConnell

October 31, 2022

The Japanese novelist productively unsettles her readers’ expectations.