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The Baffler

September 16, 2022

No Future As Elizabeth II’s seventy-year long reign of terror comes to an end, and King Charles Sausage Fingers Paddington Rumplestump Bangers and Crisps III ascends the throne, Britain has been thrown into hugger-mugger, harum-scarum, utter balderdash: bike racks have ...

Consider the Chickens

Rafia Zakaria

September 16, 2022

Alienated

Are humans stupid when it comes to understanding animals and nature?

On the Other Side of Despair

Wen Stephenson

September 15, 2022

Reading Camus in a time of nihilism and despair.

The Screw Tapes

Adrian Nathan West

September 14, 2022

On DJ Screw and the Houston rap scene.

Editions of You

Milo Nesbitt

September 13, 2022

In every dream home a heartache/And every step I take/Takes me further from heaven.

Point. Click. Occupy.

Sophia Goodfriend

September 12, 2022

Warfare has simply become a white-collar tech job.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 09, 2022

It’s Just a Jump to the Left I have always admired the writer Iain Sinclair for the extraneous vowel in his name and the execrable titles he gives his excellent books, like Slow Chocolate Autopsy, in which we meet Norton, confined to London’s city limits but free to roam ...

Playback Mode

Zachary Pace

September 08, 2022

In praise of haunting melodies.

The Infinite Previous

Michael Hofmann

September 07, 2022

Images of Florida.

Cinema Is Never on Time

A. S. Hamrah

September 06, 2022

On the late film critic Serge Daney.

Model Practitioner

Chris Lehmann

September 06, 2022

Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich.

Pieces of the Big Thing

Justin Taylor

September 05, 2022

Money is violent and money is sexual. One thing I like about Phish is that they’re neither.