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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.

Wells Run Dry

Colin Daileda

December 20, 2022

India’s famers—and the nation’s largest aquifer system—are on the brink.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 16, 2022

The Tide Is High In what is no doubt a flamboyant cross-promotion for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, enthusiasm for the substance that covers 75 percent of the globe reached an all-time high this week, as humans seemed to rediscover the properties of wetness and ...

Past in Present

Mackenzie Lukenbill

December 15, 2022

AIDS cultural production across the generations.

Have You Forgotten Him?

John Thomason

December 14, 2022

The energies of the POW/MIA movement still haunt our politics.

Shortsighted

James Wham

December 12, 2022

Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 09, 2022

Irritable Vowel Syndrome It is a truth universally acknowledged that a spangle moop in Pasadena . . . wait, wait, let me start again. In a vole in the gerund, there lorved an omelet . . . no, still not right. Call me Fish Mail! Well, if you’ve been mangling lines you were ...