Database States
January 12, 2023
Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.
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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?
A Season in Hell
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
December 29, 2022
The Baffler looks back in anger at 2022.
By the Bomb’s Filmic Light
December 27, 2022
How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?
Pioneer John
Baloney is Pioneer John’s specialty.
Reenchanted Science
December 22, 2022
Dreams die hard.
Invictus
On reading and translating poetry in an Albanian jail.
Wells Run Dry
December 20, 2022
India’s famers—and the nation’s largest aquifer system—are on the brink.