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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 ...

Mad McMurdo

Eric Emmons

December 09, 2022

Fiction

Nowhere on earth will you find more people talking ruefully of theropods.

Train in Vain

Kim Kelly

December 08, 2022

The great railroad strike that wasn’t.

Alaa on My Mind

Mohammed El-Kurd

December 07, 2022

What can we offer political prisoners like Alaa Abd el-Fattah?

Sad Girl Manifesto

Grace Byron

December 06, 2022

A lost novel returns to the cult carny world of the gonzo queen.

The Sick Proletariat

Jessica McAllen

December 05, 2022

Our health care system needs a radical fix.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 02, 2022

Ghost in the Shell While we sleep, the people rise and the pasta simmers. A Florida woman has embarked upon an upwards-of-five-million-dollar lawsuit against Velveeta for their fraudulent claim that their signature Shells & Cheese macaroni can be prepared in 3.5 minutes. ...

Who’s Watching

Marina Manoukian

December 01, 2022

The right to privacy in an age of mutual surveillance.