Little Boy Lost
March 02, 2023
Can Australia’s tradition of lost child stories be rewritten?
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The Queer Art of Cruelty
February 28, 2023
The defiant drag of Doris Fish.
Announcing Our New Editor in Chief,
Matthew Shen Goodman
February 24, 2023
The Baffler magazine, America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism since 1988, has appointed Matthew Shen Goodman as its new editor in chief.
Shen Goodman comes to The Baffler from Triple Canopy, where he served as senior editor ...
Fresh Hell
February 24, 2023
Sphere is the Mind-Killer
There seems to be no end to the ways that the formerly harmless old-timey knickknacks of a vanished Americana can harm us, with balloons peering down with sinister intent from the skies they once cluttered with box kites and fizzled fireworks, and ...
More American Carnage
A list of dead women, victims of what ought to be called "ego killings."
The Devil’s Milkshake
February 23, 2023
Arresting further complaint, one sip at a time.
Close Encounters
February 23, 2023
The truth is out there. But truth is a moving target.
Gay Liberation Failed
February 21, 2023
On the origins of today’s anti-trans backlash.
Let the Sunshine In
February 20, 2023
The tyranny of whiteness in interior design.
Fresh Hell
February 17, 2023
Écarté Derrière
This week Germany continued to lead the world in modeling how an empire engages in civilized discourse when Marco Goecke, the director of the Hanover State Opera’s ballet company, smeared dog feces in the face of his critic, who had written of his ...
Beauty and el Bloqueo
February 15, 2023
In search of the Black Venus.
Deeper in Debt
Pakistan is the latest country to edge toward the economic precipice.