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Dream of a Past
November 10, 2022
On H.D.’s writing and rewriting of herself—and her past.
One Big, Happy Family
November 09, 2022
On the Kardashians and the British royals
Who Still Needs the Carnivalesque?
November 07, 2022
In a court of fools, who laughs last?
The Roiling Point
The death of a journalist brings Pakistan to a perilous moment.
Fresh Hell
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
Respectable people are terribly dull.
On the Bally
November 03, 2022
Susan Meiselas: artist-ethnographer.
Hollow City
November 02, 2022
Exploring Edward Hopper’s New York.
No Consequences
November 01, 2022
On elite impunity.
Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World
October 31, 2022
The Japanese novelist productively unsettles her readers’ expectations.
Fresh Hell
October 28, 2022
He Knows When You Are Sleeping
Christmas seems to come earlier every year, with pharmacies and front stoops jumping the gun and defiling the sacred pagan rite of Halloween with reindeer and facsimiles of the ghoulish holiday elf Santa Claus. But in a crossover with the ...