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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 13, 2023

Sex and Con-dy It is a new year and, with Valentine’s Day approaching, love is in the air—along with its attendant archangels of confusion, deception, and betrayal. To wit, Susan Meachen, the author of independently published romance novels like Smoky Mtn. Love and a ...

Database States

Sanjana Varghese

January 12, 2023

Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.

Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains

Jaime Chu

January 11, 2023

The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.

Unflinching Prisoners of a Grandiose Make-Believe

Colin Asher

January 10, 2023

On Jan Valtin’s revolutionary memoir.

Real Magic

Lauren Collee

January 05, 2023

For Doug Henning, the equation of magic with Transcendental Meditation was no mere marketing tactic.

To All the Final Girls

Marlowe Granados

January 03, 2023

Designs for Living

Why not try being a little bit of a nightmare?

A Season in Hell

The Baffler

December 30, 2022

This year brought such a dizzying surplus of depravity—a truly incalculable preponderance of cruelty and braggadocio, vanity and idiocy—that no ledger would suffice. Each week, though, we plumbed the depths of mass media in hopes of surfacing the blackest pearls and the ...

Dead the Long Year

The Baffler

December 29, 2022

The Baffler looks back in anger at 2022.

By the Bomb’s Filmic Light

Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2022

How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?

Pioneer John

Ivy Grimes

December 23, 2022

Fiction

Baloney is Pioneer John’s specialty.

Reenchanted Science

Erik Baker

December 22, 2022

Dreams die hard.

Invictus

Visar Zhiti

December 21, 2022

Found in Translation

On reading and translating poetry in an Albanian jail.