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The Baffler

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

Marina Manoukian

December 01, 2022

The right to privacy in an age of mutual surveillance.

The Weak Novel

Lucy Ives

November 30, 2022

The “weak novel” declines to serve as bland entertainment.

Mother May I

Maya Solovej

November 29, 2022

Vigdis Hjorth’s reality fiction.

Dream Houses

Kevin Rogan

November 28, 2022

Utopian schemes to “solve” the housing crisis.

Misspent Youth

Marlowe Granados

November 23, 2022

Designs for Living

There’s no “correct” way to be young.

Remembrance of Things Present

Yasmina Price

November 22, 2022

On the Sankofa Film and Video Collective.

Life in the Fap Lane

Rob Madole

November 21, 2022

Reevaluating the work of John Barth.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 18, 2022

Aguirre, the Wrath of Gab “There is no space for symbolic structure,” sputters the Slovenian philosopher, “and this is really the paradox of psychoanalysis.” “In a way,” demurs the Bavarian filmmaker, “Freud also had something to do with literature.” The duo ...

Odorless Animals

Brittany Dennison

November 18, 2022

Fiction

Does this world at least have odds and ends?

The Look of a Loser

Rafia Zakaria

November 18, 2022

Alienated

Even Republicans are having doubts about the return of Trump.

Toothache, Bleeding, Farewell

Miljenko Jergović

November 17, 2022

Found in Translation

A personal history of the Siege of Sarajevo.