Bolsonaro’s Long Shadow
January 24, 2023
Bolsonaro’s attack on the Brazilian state.
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Fresh Hell
January 20, 2023
Junior Flints
America has a long history of following up national tragedies with the marketing of questionable products, since grief and outrage are mere market demographics in the eyes of the corporate bounder: KFC’s pink buckets for cancer, O.J. Simpson pogs, the LEGO ...
Traveling While White
Social media is flooded with accounts of solipsistic and often clueless travel-influencers.
From the Deep Forests and Seas of Yambaru
Against the U.S. military presence in Japan.
Donkey Work
January 18, 2023
What does the pained animal signify?
The Crime Wave That Wasn’t
January 17, 2023
Burlington challenges the power of its police department.
Fresh Hell
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
January 12, 2023
Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.
Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains
January 11, 2023
The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.
Unflinching Prisoners of a Grandiose Make-Believe
January 10, 2023
On Jan Valtin’s revolutionary memoir.
Real Magic
January 05, 2023
For Doug Henning, the equation of magic with Transcendental Meditation was no mere marketing tactic.
To All the Final Girls
Why not try being a little bit of a nightmare?